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David Smith was the sculptor most closely associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement. While in college, he worked one summer as a welder at an automobile factory, where his understanding and love for industrial materials and techniques took root.
David Smith. A Letter. 1952. The foremost sculptor of the Abstract Expressionist generation, David Smith created steel sculptures using welding techniques he learned while employed at a Studebaker factory in Indiana. Not dedicated solely to sculpture, Smith was a devoted painter, draftsman, and printmaker, and he saw these practices as integral ...
The Estate of David Smith is pleased to announce the publication of David Smith Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1932–1965 in a three-volume boxed set. Two volumes of catalogue entries describe 869 objects, most reproduced in fine color reproductions.
Feb 15, 2013 · Smith was a revolutionary sculptor, operating in America from the early 1930s, initially establishing his workshop in the Brooklyn Navy Pier in New York in 1933. At the time most sculptors used a bronze foundry, a marble quarry or a conventional studio and by so doing Smith fundamentally recast the artist’s role and persona.
Coral and wire on terra cotta base 5 5/8 x 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (14.3 x 6.4 x 6.4 cm) The Estate of David Smith, New York; courtesy Hauser & Wirth. From October 1931 to June 1932, Smith and his first wife, Dorothy Dehner, a sculptor and painter, lived and worked on the island of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands.
Sculptor David Smith is known for his fierce independence and his pervasive influence over modern and contemporary art. Similar to the abstract expressionists, Smith internalized cubist painting composition and the psychosocial implications of surrealism, taking on the humanist pursuits of art focused on primordial themes of life, death, and ...
Cubi VII. 1963. David Smith was among the first American artists to master the use of steel and other industrial materials. After many years of working metal into evocative linear compositions, he forged a new, formal language for sculpture through increased focus on shape, volume, surface, and structure. Cubi VII is part of a series executed ...
