David Smith
06 Oct 2011 - 08 Jan 2012
David Smith
Blue Construction, 1938
Sheet steel with baked-enamel finish
36 1⁄4 x 28 1⁄2 x 30 in. (92.1 × 72.4 × 76.2 cm)
The Estate of David Smith; courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. © The Estate of David Smith/Licensed by VAGA, New York. Photograph courtesy The Estate of David Smith
Blue Construction, 1938
Sheet steel with baked-enamel finish
36 1⁄4 x 28 1⁄2 x 30 in. (92.1 × 72.4 × 76.2 cm)
The Estate of David Smith; courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. © The Estate of David Smith/Licensed by VAGA, New York. Photograph courtesy The Estate of David Smith
DAVID SMITH
Cubes and Anarchy
6 October, 2011 – 8 January, 2012
A fresh look at the work of the great American sculptor David Smith (1906–1965), Cubes and Anarchy offers new insights into the artist’s career-long involvement with geometric forms. Traditionally, the simplified geometry of Smith’s monumental Cubi and Zig sculptures of the 1960s has been seen as a departure from the Surrealist and Expressionistic tendencies of his earlier work. Cubes and Anarchy reveals the artist’s iconic late masterpieces to be continuations of his long-standing explanation of geometric abstraction. The show includes over sixty sculptures, drawings, and paintings, as well as rarely-seen sketchbooks and photographs. Following its presentation at the Whitney, David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy will travel to the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio.
Cubes and Anarchy
6 October, 2011 – 8 January, 2012
A fresh look at the work of the great American sculptor David Smith (1906–1965), Cubes and Anarchy offers new insights into the artist’s career-long involvement with geometric forms. Traditionally, the simplified geometry of Smith’s monumental Cubi and Zig sculptures of the 1960s has been seen as a departure from the Surrealist and Expressionistic tendencies of his earlier work. Cubes and Anarchy reveals the artist’s iconic late masterpieces to be continuations of his long-standing explanation of geometric abstraction. The show includes over sixty sculptures, drawings, and paintings, as well as rarely-seen sketchbooks and photographs. Following its presentation at the Whitney, David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy will travel to the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio.