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David Smith

[American Abstract Expressionist Sculptor, 1906-1965]

• Relationships: Founding member of the American Abstract Artists group, 1936.
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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.

 


 
    David Smith Works Online    
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Commercial Galleries:  Galleries: We invite you to register and list your site (no charge for this service)
Original works by David Smith available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Notable SiteArt Institute of Chicago   NEW!

Notable SiteDallas 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)

Notable SiteFine Arts Museums of San Francisco   NEW!

Notable SiteGuggenheim Museum, New York City
Cubi XXVII, March 1965

Notable SiteHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.   NEW!
"Artists in Depth" page for David Smith

Notable SiteMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York City   NEW!

Notable SiteMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Leda, 1938

Notable SiteMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Two Circle Sentinel, 1961

Notable SiteMuseum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist

Notable SiteNational Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.   NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist

Notable SiteNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra
25 planes

Notable SiteNational Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Notable SitePeggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice   NEW!

Notable SiteSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Notable SiteDavid Smith at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Notable SiteTate Gallery, London, UK

Notable SiteThe Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Interior Farm, 1928

Notable SiteWhitney Museum of American Art, New York City

Notable SiteYale 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:
Notable SiteWikimedia Commons Image Database  

Notable SiteWorld 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

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Miscellaneous Sites:
Artnet Artist Works Catalogues  

UBS Financial Services Art Collection

 
Articles and Reference Sites:
Notable SiteEncyclopedia 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

Notable SiteUnion List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Notable SiteWikipedia, 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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