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David Smith

David Smith

American

Mixed MediaSurrealismAbstract ExpressionismExpressionism

Representation

None documented

34

Institutional Exhibitions

53

Works in Collection

104

Assets Indexed

8

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

90%

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Cultural Positioning

Movements

• Surrealism
• Abstract Expressionism
• Expressionism
• Geometric Abstraction
• Constructivism

Related Artists

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Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Master Prints from the Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1989

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Recent Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1988–1989

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Master Prints from the Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1987–1988

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Drawing since 1940

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1987

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Sculptors' Drawings

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1986

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Movement

Surrealism

Medium

Mixed Media

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern ArtNew York The Metropolitan Museum of Art Tate Whitney Museum of American Art Art Institute of Chicago

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Artworks (53)

1996 · color etching, aquatint, roulette, and engraving

Sheet: 91 x 77 cm (35 13/16 x 30 5/16 in.); Platemark: 63.8 x 60.3 cm (25 1/8 x 23 3/4 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

1965 · Stainless steel

9 ft. 5 3/4 in. × 10 ft. 3 in. × 30 1/2 in., 2178 lb. (288.9 × 312.4 × 77.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wagon II

object: 2140 x 1175 x 2875 mm, 1300 kg

Painting 1964

1964 · Oil paint on canvas on plywood

support: 1397 x 451 mm

Cubi XIX

1964 · Stainless steel

object: 2864 x 1480 x 1016 mm 225 kg

Untitled (Study for Cubi VII)

Untitled (Study for Cubi VII)

1963 · Black, blue and ochre spray enamel with black pastel and white oil paint on cream laid paper

Max: 40.8 × 29.7 cm (16 1/8 × 11 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Cubi VII

1963 · Stainless steel

281.9 × 175.3 × 58.4 cm (111 × 69 × 23 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Cubi X

1963 · Stainless steel

10' 1 3/8" x 6' 6 3/4" x 24" (308.3 x 199.9 x 61 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Images

13 assets

David Smith (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia

Tanktotem I (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

(Met Museum)

Met Museum

David Smith, Big Diamond (1952) (34885347616) cropped

Wikimedia Commons (Instagram fallback)

Signature plaque on 'Hirebecca' by David Smith, 1961

Wikimedia Commons (Instagram fallback)

Saw Head (1933) by David Smith (5899787866)

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Home of the welder Tate Modern L01025 n01

Wikimedia Commons (Instagram fallback)

David Smith02

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Shared movement

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Martin Schongauer

Martin Schongauer

Shared movement

Shared movement

Marsden Hartley

Marsden Hartley

Shared movement

Also mixed media

Also mixed media

Also mixed media

Nathaniel Mary Quinn

Nathaniel Mary Quinn

Also mixed media

Stanley Whitney

Stanley Whitney

Also mixed media

Also mixed media

Record

Movements and affiliations

Abstract Expressionism

Geometric Abstraction

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Tate

In collection

Whitney Museum of American Art

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Market

Auction sale history

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