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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.
Organized on the 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth, David Smith: A Centennial presents over 120 of his greatest sculptures, as well as a selection of his drawings and sketchbooks, from his entire 33-year career as a sculptor. Considering his art as a totality, the exhibition provides audiences with a singular opportunity to understand ...
David Smith was born in 1906 in Decatur, Indiana. After briefly attending college at Ohio University, the University of Notre Dame, and George Washington University, he moved to New York in 1926, where he studied painting full time at the Art Students League. During the 1930s he began to focus on sculpture, creating welded constructions by ...
Biography. 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 ...
Artist Bio. “Sculpture is as free as the mind, as complex as life.” —David Smith. 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 ...
Becca. David Smith was unquestionably one of the most influential and innovative American sculptors of the twentieth century. Born in Decatur, Indiana, in 1906, Smith was trained as a painter at the Art Students League in New York (1926–30) before turning to sculpture in the early 1930s. His career as a sculptor may be divided into three phases.
I hope my love of watercolor can be found on this site. And I hope we'll have the opportunity to paint together soon. Until then, keep that palette wet! Sincerely, David. *If purchasing from outside the continental U.S., please contact me for shipping prices: david@dsmithfineart.com. David Smith Fine Art.
