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Roland David Smith (March 9, 1906 – May 23, 1965) was an influential and innovative American abstract expressionist sculptor and painter, widely known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures. Born in Decatur, Indiana, Smith initially pursued painting, receiving training at the Art Students League in New York from 1926 to 1930.
Mar 9, 2012 · In 1965, at the apex of his creative and professional development, Smith died suddenly and tragically from injuries sustained in a car accident in Bennington, Vermont.
- American
- March 9, 1906
- Decatur, Indiana
- May 23, 1965
Jun 29, 2017 · June 29, 2017. When the artist David Smith died in an auto accident in 1965, he left behind nearly 100 of his large sculptures in the grass outside his studio in Bolton Landing, N.Y., in...
- Will Heinrich
Jan 8, 2015 · Shown in context, the works Smith produced in the years just before his death, in a 1965 car crash, come off not as anomalies but as the logical culmination of everything he’d been doing from ...
Nov 5, 1982 · In 1962, three years before he died in a car crash, Smith put it all together, producing 27 monumental sculptures in only 30 days--in an abandoned steel plant in Voltri, Italy.
Smith died in a car accident near Bennington, VT on May 23, 1965 at the age of 59. Today, his works are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, among others.
In 1965, Smith was involved in a car accident in Vermont; he later died in a hospital in Albany, New York, at the age of fifty-nine. Related Books Crosscurrents: Modern Art from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection
