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I like outdoor sculpture, and the most practical thing for outdoor sculpture is stainless steel, and I make them and I polish them in such a way that on a dull day, they take on the dull blue, or the color of the sky in the late afternoon sun, the glow, golden like the rays, the colors of nature... They are colored by the sky and the surroundings.
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David Smith Works Online
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Original works by David Smith available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Guggenheim Museum, New York City Cubi XXVII, March 1965
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW! "Artists in Depth" page for David Smith
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Leda, 1938
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Two Circle Sentinel, 1961
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Includes biographical information about the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 25 planes
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
David Smith at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. Interior Farm, 1928
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut Cubi XXII
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW! (Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio Untitled, drawing
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, California Voltri XIII, 1962
Broad Art Foundation
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK 2 works by or related to the artist
Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida Ring-toothed Woman, 1950
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio Bronze Planes: April 24, 1964
Hammer Museum, California Cubi XX, 1964
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri Circles and Diamonds, 1951
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York Big Diamond Untitled
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Classic Figure III, 1945
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma Drawing for Becca, 1960
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma Torso, 1937
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish)
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Seattle Art Museum
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska Superstructure on 4
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York Three Ovals Soar, 1960
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina, Greensboro Interior, 1937
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums Wagon II, 1964
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
California State University WorldImages Database
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project 6 works documented
PBase Photo Sharing (Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution) 2 photographs of Cubi XVIII
PBase Photo Sharing (Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution) Cubi XXVI, 1965
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Artnet Artist Works Catalogues
UBS Financial Services Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on David Smith Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia Biographical info
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas David Smith: Related Clues
Resource Library Magazine
The Art Story
The New York Observer "David Smith: Unexpected, Even Ferocious", article by Hilton Kramer
The New Yorker "David Smith retrospective at the Guggenheim", 2006 review by Peter Schjeldahl
Multimedia:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Flash presentation of 15 works, including Smith's Five Ciarcs, 1963 (click "explore 15 works" when you get past the intro)
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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