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  Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Smith - Biography
David Smith was born March 9, 1906, in Decatur, Indiana.
Smith’s first solo show of drawings and welded-steel sculpture was held at Marion Willard’s East River Gallery in New York in 1938.
Smith taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, from 1948 to 1950, and at Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, and other schools during the 1950s.
www.guggenheimcollection.org /site/artist_bio_146B.html   (400 words)

  
 Guggenheim Museum - Exhibitions - David Smith: A Centennial - Overview
Organized on the 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth, David Smith: A Centennial presents over 120 of his greatest sculptures, as well as a selection of his drawings and sketchbooks, from his entire 33-year career as a sculptor.
This collage aesthetic, combined with the influence of Surrealism, led Smith, like his contemporaries in the world of painting, to formulate a new mode of expressionism amid the turbulent context of the World War II and its aftermath.
When Smith died suddenly in a tragic car accident in 1965, he was at the height of his creative powers, and he left behind an expansive yet remarkably coherent, and extraordinarily powerful, body of work.
www.guggenheim.org /smith/overview.html   (381 words)

  
 David Smith - Related Clues at Gagosian Gallery - A Review by Donald Goddard
Smith harped on the idea that words cannot in any way represent what is expressed in a work of art, yet he made art that was itself a language of words, and it is in their very graphic wordness that we know these works are representations.
In any of them, David Smith 3-10-59, for instance, the fl strokes stretch out, mostly in diagonals, with some curls and swoops, to claim the rectangle of the paper for the simplest and most direct expression of a complex thought and image, something that might otherwise be impossible to express.
Smith sensed everything around him--the growth and movement of trees, the transformation of light, the flight of birds, the roiling of his own consciousness--and the possibilities of writing it all in steel.
www.newyorkartworld.com /reviews/smith.html   (1337 words)

  
 David Smith Studios
David's energetic approach to developing a client's idea and making it come to life visually through photography has been his strength as he works with the varied needs of art directors and graphic designers.
David feels his background in fine art photography has been essential to his success in the commercial world.
David is an accomplished commercial photographer with a style that can capture the true essence of an image and use it to communicate effectively.
www.davidsmithstudio.com /about.htm   (334 words)

  
 The Brooklyn Rail - April 2006 - David Smith: a Centennial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Smith was among the most original, protean, and potent artists of the 20th century, an apparently tireless inventor of unexpected, eloquent forms.
Smith was one of the most sculptural (and delicate) of sculptors, attuned to the subtleties of how things touch, overlap, and project, and to the physical properties of materials—size, visual weight, color, density, and more—all of which he turned into carriers of profound feeling.
David Levi Strauss is the author of Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics (2003), The Fighting Is a Dance, Too: Leon Golub and Nancy Spero (2000), Between Dog and Wolf: Essays on Art and Politics (1999), Broken Wings: The Legacy of Landmines (1998) and a book of poems, Manoeuvres (1980).
www.brooklynrail.org /2006-04/art/david-smith-a-centennial   (1495 words)

  
 The Gartner Fellows: David Mitchell Smith's Biography
David was named most influential analyst in 2003 by Adweek Magazines' Technology Marketing for his widely respected views on platforms like.Net and Java.
David has interviewed many famous technology leaders including Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft Corporation, Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun and Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel at Gartner Symposium asking the difficult questions to which users want answers.
David is currently leading an effort that is focused on researching the impact of consumer technologies on enterprises.
www.gartner.com /research/fellows/asset_59708_1175.jsp   (851 words)

  
 Susan Smith: Child Murderer or Victim? - The Crime Library
David Smith was born on July 27, 1970, the second of three children born to Barbara and Charles David Smith.
David and Susan seemed to fulfill what the other needed emotionally, however their relationship was filled with many stresses and strains.
David was raised in the country and Susan was raised in the city.
www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/famous/smith/david_4.html   (1333 words)

  
 Sinclair Broadcast Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Smith founded Comark Communications, Inc., a company engaged in the manufacture of high power transmitters for UHF television stations, and was an officer and director of Comark until 1986.
Smith was an oral and maxillofacial surgeon engaged in private practice and was employed by Frederick G. Smith, M.S., D.D.S., P.A., a professional corporation of which Mr.
Smith is currently a member of the board of directors or trustees of Sinclair Ventures, Inc., the Freven Foundation, Safe Waterways in Maryland, Gerstell Academy, University of Maryland at Baltimore Foundation and The Sinclair Relief Fund.
www.sbgi.net /about/directors.shtml   (894 words)

  
 David Smith Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
David Smith (1906-1965), American sculptor and painter, pioneered in exploiting welded, openwork metal sculpture.
David Smith was born in Decatur, Ind. The family moved to Paulding, Ohio, in 1921.
Smith became acquainted with many artists who worked abstractly, and they encouraged him to work in that style.
www.bookrags.com /biography/david-smith   (865 words)

  
 David Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Smith became highly adept as a welder and metalworker and believed that metal was the most expressive medium for 20th century sculpture.
Smith also worked with painted steel in a series called "Tank Totems." These works demonstrate an influence by the Spanish artist Joan Miró in their anthropomorphic brightly colored forms.
by David Smith, Carmen Gimenez, Rosalind Krauss, and David Anfam
www.artagogo.com /News/davidsmith/davidsmith1.htm   (634 words)

  
 David Smith
David Smith was born in Decatur, Indiana, in 1906.
Smith's mother was a school teacher, who had hoped that her son would also pursue a career in teaching.
Smith continued to produce sculpture until his death on May 25, 1965, from injuries received in an automobile accident.
www.museum.siu.edu /museum_classroom_grant/Museum_Explorers/virtual/david_smith.htm   (243 words)

  
 David Smith Associates, LLC-Certified Public Accountant
David graduated from Marshall University with a bachelors degree in business administration.
David is a member of the America Institute of CPAs, the South Carolina Association of CPAs, and the Grand Strand Chapter of CPAs.
David is actively involved in youth athletics at the North Myrtle Beach Recreation Department and has served on the Financial Advisory Board of the Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce.
www.davidsmithassociates.com /1.htm   (251 words)

  
 A Virus Writer Heads to Prison -
No matter what happens when he returns to court again on Friday, David Smith is already slated to serve the longest prison sentence ever meted out to a virus writer.
Smith had faced a maximum sentence of five years' imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.
David Smith is scheduled to appear again for sentencing on Friday in Monmouth County Superior Court in New Jersey on state charges of Melissa-related crimes.
www.wired.com /news/politics/0,1283,52261,00.html   (606 words)

  
 Tate Modern | Past Exhibitions | David Smith
Smith grew up in Indiana, the son of an engineer, and from an early age was enthralled by trains and railroads.
Early in his career, Smith was influenced by the work of European sculptors such as Pablo Picasso, Julio González and Alberto Giacometti, assimilating some of their techniques into American sculpture for the first time.
Celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the artist’s birth, David Smith: Sculptures presents the masterpieces of Smith’s mature period in the 1950s and 1960s, many of which are seen together in London for the first time, as well as a selection of his early works.
www.tate.org.uk /modern/exhibitions/davidsmith/default.shtm   (389 words)

  
 The Fields of David Smith - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine
The exhibition is the third and final installment of three curated by Candida Smith, the younger of the artist's two daughters.
Smith himself thought writing was unhelpful in explaining his work.
Smith was isolated and lonely at Bolton Landing, especially after his two divorces.
www.slate.com /id/29461/sidebar/29463   (1281 words)

  
 David Smith - Fastest Machine - Nonesuch Records - CD
Smith pens all 10 tunes here, populating his songs with stories of the misunderstood, the misbegotten, the disillusioned, the lost and struggling and searching, strangers and losers and loners...the left out and left behind, those who don't quite fit in.
David Smith is now the latest to join that esteemed company.
David Smith is a major new talent, bettering most of the newer troubadors by leaps and bounds.
www.musictap.net /Reviews/SmithDavidFastestMachineCD.html   (552 words)

  
 David Smith Online
David Smith at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
David Smith in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
David Smith at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/smith_david.html   (500 words)

  
 Contemporary Art Blogs - absolutearts.com - "David Smith" by Walter King
By 1958 smith began making his 'spray' paintings by placing scraps of metal and other materials on a sheet of paper then spraying over the objects creating a kind of positive negative design with a positive background and a negative white space for the objects.
Smith died in a truck accident near Bennington Vermont in the same year he was appointed by President Johnson to the National Council on the Arts in 1965.
Smith’s work has been featured in prominent Museum exhibitions from 1979 through the Guggenheim show that is up now including the Whitney, Detroit Institute of Art and the Hirshorn in Washington D.C..
blog.absolutearts.com /blogs/archives/00000243.html   (3447 words)

  
 David Smith's Chronology provided by The Estate of David Smith
Smith also explores other aspects of New York’s cultural life, developing strong interests in jazz and modern dance that will continue through his life.
Smith rents working space in a shed on the Brooklyn waterfront that houses “Terminal Iron Works, Boiler-Tube Makers and Ship-Deck.” This is his main studio until 1940.
Clement Greenberg writes in The Nation about Smith’s Interior (1937): “If [Smith] is able to maintain the level set in the work he has already done, he has a chance of becoming the greatest of all American Artists.” April, one-man show at Willard Gallery, New York (18 sculptures and 5 drawings from 1939-43).
www.davidsmithestate.org /bio.html   (1521 words)

  
 Storm King Art Center - David Smith
The thirteen David Smith sculptures, purchased in 1967, are the nucleus of the Storm King collection.
Eight works are installed outside with a view to the Hudson Highlands in the distance, emulating Smith's placement of his sculptures in the fields surrounding his home and studio at Bolton Landing in the Adirondacks.
David Smith was the first artist in America to use the technique of welding to construct sculptures.
www.stormking.org /DavidSmith.html   (156 words)

  
 David Smith (Quebec politician) Information
David Smith (born September 25, 1963) is a Canadian politician.
A former member of the Canadian House of Commons, Smith served as a city councillor in Maniwaki, Quebec until 2004.
The controversy dogged Smith into the next election, despite being cleared by an investigation by the Ethics Commissioner.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/David_Smith_(Quebec_politician)   (171 words)

  
 Amazon.com: David Smith: A Centennial: Books: David Smith,Carmen Gimenez,Rosalind Krauss,David Anfam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Deemed the ìforemost sculptor of his generationî by art critic Clement Greenberg, David Smith, who lived from 1906 to 1965, is about to be celebrated in his first retrospective since 1969--to be held at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, from February through May of 2006.
David Smith: A Centennial features new photographs of nearly every selected sculpture--110 pieces dating from 1932 to 1965, including important examples from each period, many rarely seen in public.
David Smith: A Centennial considers Smith's oeuvre as a totality, and offers readers the chance to understand the complexity of his aesthetic concerns as well as his impact on the course of American sculpture, and American art at large.
www.amazon.com /David-Smith-Centennial/dp/0892073438   (798 words)

  
 Animals in Art
Smith started experimenting with constructed sculpture (as opposed to the more traditional ways of creating sculpture by casting in bronze or carving in stone).
While traditional materials and techniques were still used in the early twentieth century, sculptors such as Smith often turned to new materials and methods of construction that they thought were more relevant to the industrial and scientific age.
David Smith's sculpture is imaginatively put together to form strong, innovative designs.
hirshhorn.si.edu /education/animals/animals4.html   (604 words)

  
 Arizona State University Department of Physics - David Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Off-axis electron holography is a particularly powerful approach since it permits quantitative visualization of nanoscale electric and magnetic fields, and we are using the technique to investigate the magnetization behavior and fringing fields associated with patterned nanostructures.
Smith, “The realization of atomic resolution with the electron microscope”, Reports Progress Phys.
McCartney, R. Dunin-Borkowski, M. Scheinfein, D. Smith, S. Gider, and S. Parkin, “Origin of magnetization decay in spin-independent tunnel junctions”, Science 286, 1337-1340 (1999).
phy.asu.edu /faculty/david_smith.php   (211 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Fields of David Smith: Books: Candida Smith,Irving Sandler,David Smith,Mark Di Suvero,Storm King Art ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
After David Smith's untimely death in 1965, row upon row of extraordinary abstract sculptures were discovered in the grassy fields that surround the artist's home and studio at Bolton Landing in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.
In her introductory essay, daughter Candida N. Smith recalls a magical childhood in the creative oasis of what the artist called his "sculpture farm," and writes eloquently of his art as an extension of his identity.
David Smith strove to create works of art that could be viewed "without reverence or awe" because they were, in his words, "natural.
www.amazon.com /Fields-David-Smith-Candida/dp/0500019088   (1437 words)

  
 Oakland Personal Injury Lawyer | San Francisco Car Accident Attorney | California, Berkeley, Fremont, Hayward, Pleasant ...
At the Law Offices of David G. Smith, we focus on helping clients recover monetary compensation for their personal injury and wrongful death claims.
Our philosophy is simple: Cases are handled by Attorney David G. Smith personally, clients are kept informed of the status of their cases, and we work hard to recover the maximum amount of compensation for every client, given the unique circumstances of each case.
The Law Offices of David G. Smith represent people who have been seriously injured in all types of accidents, including car and truck accidents, motorcycle accidents, construction accidents, bicycle and pedestrian accidents, boating accidents, slip and fall accidents, dog attacks, and similar misfortunes.
www.davesmithlaw.com   (371 words)

  
 David A Smith, Associate Professor Emeritus
Professor Smith is Co-Director (with Professor Lawrence Moore) of Project CALC, which developed an award-winning curriculum for calculus instruction, based on laboratory experiments, discovery learning, real-world applications, writing and revision of writing, and high expectations of students.
Professors Smith and Moore also direct the Connected Curriculum Project, funded by the National Science Foundation.
David Tall, David A. Smith, and Cynthia Piez, Technology and Calculus, in Research on Technology and the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics, edited by Kathy Heid and Glen Blume (Accepted, 2006), Information Age Publishing, Inc..
fds.duke.edu /db/aas/math/faculty/smith   (221 words)

  
 David J. Smith: Guide to Specialists: U.S. Institute of Peace
David J. Smith is a senior program officer in USIP's Education program, where he focuses on secondary, college, and university education in conflict resolution and peace studies.
Smith participated in the Institute of Peace’s Faculty Seminar for Community College Faculty in 1997.
Smith holds a B.A. in political science and urban affairs from American University and a J.D. from the University of Baltimore.
www.usip.org /specialists/bios/current/smith.html   (318 words)

  
 Problems in 20th Century Sculpture :: Lecture 11 - David Smith: The Burden of Content   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
David Smith - Tanktotem IV - 1953 - steel - h.
David Smith - Cubi X - stainless steel - 1963 - h.
Smith, David—Jurassic Bird—steel, painted white—25 5/8 x 35 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.
ist-socrates.berkeley.edu:7138 /gallery/album26?page=1   (260 words)

  
 David Smith, MD
Smith is a Visiting Research Physician, who is serving as State Medical Specialist for a substance abuse services grant at the Institute for Health and Aging at the University of California, San Francisco.
Description: Dr. Smith serves as the State Medical Director on Substance Abuse Services, providing clinical consultation and direction regarding public health quality assurance, training on an effective provision of substance treatment, as well as other aspects of the alcohol and other drug continuum of care, primary medical care, and infection control.
Smith provided AOD prevention technical assistance to counties and local AOD prevention programs, as well as ADP.
nurseweb.ucsf.edu /iha/faculty/smith.htm   (1472 words)

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