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References. Title: Song of the Landscape. Artist: David Smith (American, Decatur, Indiana 1906–1965 Bennington, Vermont) Date: 1950. Medium: Iron and bronze, on wood base. Dimensions: 19 × 32 × 19 1/2 in., 30.1 lb. (48.3 × 81.3 × 49.5 cm, 13.7 kg) Classification: Sculpture. Credit Line: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, Gift ...
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David Smith American. 1957 Not on view View more. Due to...
- Waterfront Scene With Reclining Woman, Self-Portrait
Artist: David Smith (American, Decatur, Indiana 1906–1965...
- Woodblock for Untitled
Artist: David Smith (American, Decatur, Indiana 1906–1965...
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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.
- Roland David Smith, March 9, 1906, Decatur, Indiana, US
- Sculpture
- May 23, 1965 (aged 59), South Shaftsbury, Vermont, US
Mar 9, 2012 · Summary of David Smith. Among the greatest American sculptors of the 20 th 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 ...
- American
- March 9, 1906
- Decatur, Indiana
- May 23, 1965
In 1965, in recognition of his position as one of the leading abstract sculptors in America, Smith was appointed to the National Council on the Arts. He was at the peak of his influence as an artist. Tragically, in May of the same year, he died in a car accident in May 1965. David Smith is considered one of the most important American sculptors ...
By Will Heinrich. 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...
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.
