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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
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Many works online
David Smith at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
David Smith on the Roof
David Smith at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
7 works online when last checked
David Smith at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
9 works by David Smith
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
25 planes
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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
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
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Circles and Diamonds, 1951
David Smith in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
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
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish) 
Seattle Art Museum
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Superstructure on 4
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
David Smith at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York
Three Ovals Soar, 1960
Tate Gallery, London, UK
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 NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(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
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Cubi XXVI, 1965
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
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Miscellaneous Sites:
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
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
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
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
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
Time Magazine
"Dream Sculptures in Ink and Paper", 1979 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Iron Was in His Name", 1983 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Arrogant Intrusion", 1974 article by Robert Hughes
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
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