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David Smith was born in Decatur, Indiana, in 1906. His mother was a school teacher and a devout Methodist; his father was a telephone engineer and part-time inventor, who fostered in his son a reverence for machinery. After his family moved to Paulding, Ohio, in 1921, Smith developed an interest in art, taking a correspondence course in drawing ...
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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.
The notion of automatism, the expressive potential inherent in creating a work of art directly in response to subconscious impulses and fantasies, undoubtedly made a deep impression on Smith . . . (“David Smith,” Artforum, Summer 1967, p. 74.) Hilton Kramer also makes this point again and again.
The Estate of David Smith, New York. This Untitled (Tableau) is one of many experimental photographs created during Smith’s 1931-32 sojourn in the Virgin Islands, and demonstrates the artist’s early engagement with Surrealism, which reached its heyday in Europe by the late 1920s. The organic shape of the white coral in the foreground ...
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Understanding David Smith’s Circles. A new US show of the artist’s key set of works allows gallery-goers a chance to reassess his circular works. Distinguishing artists as painters or sculptors is useful from a critical, or art-historical perspective. Yet sometimes, the labelling can get in the way. Take the 20th Century American artist ...
