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Open access. The size and form of Tony Smith’s Die, a 6-foot steel cube, was inspired by the Italian Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci’s famous drawing of the Vitruvian Man, which shows the ideal proportions of the human figure set within the perfect geometry of a circle and a square.
The 31-foot red steel sculpture For Marjorie (1961), for example, stands in the grounds of MIT, whilst the 35-foot, 75-foot-wide orange arch Last (1979) is located in downtown Cleveland. As well as excelling across multiple media, Smith was a pioneer of Minimalism.
- American
- September 23, 1912
- South Orange, New Jersey
- December 26, 1980
Mar 11, 2015 · Today, he is remembered most for Die (1962), a six-foot black steel cube that weighed in at 500 pounds. Its title doubles as a reference to its shape (it looks like a die) and a command evoked by...
Recalling this several years ago, I designed a studio for myself in the form of a forty foot cube- eight feet to have been below grade. The interior of the studio I designed for Betty Parsons is a half cube.
Considered a pioneering figure of minimalism, Tony Smith was an American artist and architect best known for his abstract, modular sculptures created in the 1960s and 1970s. His We Lost is a hulking open cube of welded steel, painted black, that stands on the front lawn of the University of Pennsylvania’s Singh Center for Nanotechnology.
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Anthony Peter Smith (September 23, 1912 – December 26, 1980) was an American sculptor, visual artist, architectural designer, and a noted theorist on art. He is often cited as a pioneering figure in American Minimalist sculpture.
FREE RIDE, 1962 - SCULPTURE - Artworks - Tony Smith. Steel, painted black. 6'8" x 6'8" x 6'8" Edition 3/3. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo by Tom Powel. “On the day of Scott Carpenter’s orbital flight-Aurora VII-May 24, 1962, we were talking about gyroscopes and looking at a gyro encased in a one-inch-diameter cylinder – one inch long.
