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David Smith is a UK-based artist who captures the beauty and light of the British countryside in his oil paintings. He also offers prints of his paintings and a limited edition print of a cow parsley.
David Smith was an American Abstract Expressionist sculptor and painter, best known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures. Explore his 16 artworks of painting, including oil paintings, watercolours, and pastels, on Wikiart.org.
- American
- March 9, 1906
- Decatur, Indiana, United States
- May 23, 1965
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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
The Estate is dedicated to preserving the legacy of artist David Smith through the promotion of exhibitions, publications, and research. We encourage new scholarship of Smith’s work while preserving an extensive archive containing historical documents and photographs related to Smith’s life and career.
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(American, 1906–1965) Artworks. Biography. Dealers. Events. News. Monograph. David Smith was an early Abstract Expressionist sculptor who welded steel into large geometric works. Throughout Smith’s career, he also created paintings and drawings that utilized Abstract Expressionist techniques.
