David Smith, artist and art
Born March 9, 1906, Birth Decatur, Indiana, USA.
Died May 23, 1965 deathBennington, USA.
Style and technique, exhibitions: Abstract Expressionism, Sculpture Objects, Documenta Kassel,Artist biography, artworks, statement, interview, review, exhibition:
Auctions & Auction Results
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Biography and work, Guggenheim
Works in the Tate collection
David Smith transformed sculpture with such works as "Cubi XVII." One of a series of twenty-eight Cubi sculptures that date from 1961 to 1965, "Cubi XVII" presents Smith’s fusion of European ideas of abstract form, from Brancusi, Arp, and other modernists to the psychological content of Giacometti, with the newfound freedom of scale and gesture of post-World War II American art…
Cubi III, 1961
Whitney collection
