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He went on to a distinguished career as an art teacher himself, which included 14 years at the Chelsea School of Art, from where he retired as a senior lecturer in 1979, and a swan-song as a much-revered teacher of etching at the Camden Arts Centre (he had been elected to the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1951).
Smith sold well in Japan, where he painted all the major harbours. He was official artist to the British Antarctic Survey, 1975–6, with a second voyage in 1979–80. In 1982–4 he was invited by Trinity House to record the lighthouses of England and Wales.
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Among the greatest American sculptors of the 20th century, David Smith was the first to work with welded metal. He wove a rich mythology around this rugged work, often talking of the formative experiences he had in his youth while working in a car body workshop. Yet this only disguised a brilliant mind that fruitfully combined a range of influences...
One of Smith's most important formal innovations was to abandon the idea of a "core" in sculpture. This notion was pervasive in modern sculpture, fostering an approach that saw sculptural form spri...The idea of the totem, a tribal art form that represents a group of related people, was an inspiration to Smith, and something for which he tried to find a modern form. Freud's ideas about totems l...One of the means by which Smith sought to keep the viewer at a distance from his sculptures - emotionally and intellectually - was to devise innovative approaches to composition. These were aimed a...Childhood
David Smith was born in Decatur, Indiana, in 1906 and moved with his family to Paulding, Ohio, in 1921. Smith's mother was a schoolteacher, while the artist's father managed a telephone company and was an amateur inventor. Smith was the great-grandson of a blacksmith, and of his childhood, the artist recalls, "we used to play on trains and around factories. I played there just as I played in nature, on hills and creeks." Smith left college after only one year and, in 1925, began working at th...
Early Training
After a brief period in Washington D.C., Smith came to New York City in 1926. He soon met his first wife, the sculptor Dorothy Dehner, and enrolled in The Art Students League, where he studied painting and drawing over the next five years. He never received formal sculptural training. His teacher Jan Matulka at the Art Students League did, however, encourage him to start adding three-dimensional elements to his paintings. At this time, Smith began creating relief-like works that evolved into...
Mature Period
In 1940, Smith and Dehner permanently relocated to their farm in Bolton Landing, in upstate New York. He named the farm "Terminal Iron Works," after his Brooklyn studio. This move was followed by a two-year period of decreased productivity, during which Smith worked in a locomotive factory in order to avoid the draft. The majority of the 1940s was a very productive time for Smith, and he worked through the influence of Surrealism to arrive at a style of sculpture that framed abstract, metamor...
- American
- March 9, 1906
- Decatur, Indiana
- May 23, 1965
David Smith: Sculpture 1932 - 1965. . Sat 22 Jun 2019– Sun 5 Jan 2020Underground Gallery, NAEA Gallery. . About David Smith: Sculpture 1932 - 1965. Part of Yorkshire Sculpture International.
British landscape artist David Smith was born in Thundersley, Benfleet, Essex, in 1949 to a modest family. He was strongly influenced by the artistic talents of his paternal grandfather, a larger-than-life character. David’s grandfather earned a living in his youth as a bare fist pugilist. He also sailed the world on ocean-going liners as a printer, producing menus and other shipboard ...
Excerpt from David Smith, Bolton Landing. 8mm film by Robert Murray. 1965. The Estate of David Smith announces the publication of David Smith Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1932–1965 . David Smith inspecting Voltri-Bolton V and Voltri-Bolton I with an assistant in Bolton Landing, New York, 1962.
50 products. A PROMISING DAY - Open Edition Print. £50.00. AFTER THE RAIN - Limited Edition Print. £80.00. AFTERNOON AT LEEDS CASTLE - Limited Edition Print. £85.00. ANGLING SPOT - Original Oil Painting. Sold out.
