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	David Smith (sculptor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		David Smith (March 6, 1906 Decatur, Indiana - May 23, 1965 Bennington, Vermont) was an American sculptor of Abstract Expressionism mostly know for large steel abstract geometric sculptures.
		In 1940, Smith created the Terminal Iron Works studio in upstate New York and started enlarging the size of many of his welded sculptures, moving to installations that increased in size as time passed by.
		A picture of Cubi XVIII David Smith viewed postmodern America as a "culture in search of a culture".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Smith_(sculptor) (371 words)

	BU Bridge Arts Dept. - Week of 22 January 1999
		Smith, born in Decatur, Ind., in 1906, moved in 1926 to New York, where he befriended artists disenchanted with what seemed to them the static and provincial nature of American art.
		Smith was a minority among WPA artists when he chose to defend modernism, "fighting both against political conservatism (as leftists, which many of their antagonists among the realists were also) and against aesthetic conservatism (as radical experimentalists in the abstract mode)," writes Ashton.
		Smith's medals, refined after casting with jeweler's tools and a dentist's drill, convey his outrage for the suffering inflicted by war and indict those who seek to gain power by waging it.
	www.bu.edu /bridge/archive/1999/01-22/arts.html (771 words)

	village voice > art > David Smith by R.C. Baker
		David Smith was a Renaissance man: brash sculptor, audacious painter, passionate lecturer.
		Smith's insight into European modernism, his grasp of the long traditions from which it emerged, and his blue-collar American ethos combined to bring forth an alchemy of metal and paint.
		Smith masterfully traverses this realm between dimensions: The white shapes left by his stencils fill a 17-inch spray drawing with voluminous geometries that become the soaring struts and wedges of a 16-foot brushed-steel sculpture.
	www.villagevoice.com /art/0415,baker,52612,13.html (243 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)

	Art in America: David Smith: toward volume
		Although the development of David Smith's sculpture is a subject that has been exhaustively researched, a recent exhibition at the National Academy of Design (the last of five American venues) examined his work from an unusual point of view.
		However, relief for Smith was more than a formal tool; it was also a kind of time-out zone, a place in which he could play openly with his fantasies and obsessions, indulge in archaic forms of craft or toy with wild ideas.
		Because Smith had already made his first openwork welded-steel constructions before leaving for Europe and was certainly the first American to do so, his subsequent turn to a fairly traditional form of cast relief can seem like a temporary retreat from the modernist ethos that was to underlie his best later work.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_4_90/ai_84669343 (1287 words)

	Acquavella: David Smith's Biography
		David Smith was born in 1906 in Decatur, Indiana and grew up in Ohio.
		Smith was one of the first American sculptors to embrace Constructivism by creating his first welded steel sculpture in 1933.
		Smith’s constructions of the 1950’s, esteemed for their formal qualities, used discarded machine parts welded to create objects that describe figures or fragments of landscape.
	www.acquavellagalleries.com /main/artist_bio.cfm?artist_id=209 (228 words)

	The Fields of David Smith - His steel sculptures return to their roots. By Jacob Weisberg
		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 (1282 words)

	Smith, David on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		David Smith, a freelance graphic artist, works on designing a Website at Legal Grounds in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday, November 26, 2003.
		David Kelly Ainsi, pour le chef de l'opposition conservatrice Iain Duncan Smith, Tony Blair a traitÃ© "sournoisement" et "h.
		David Smith, right, a freelance graphic artist, works with Rob Wrinkle on designing his Website at Legal Grounds in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday, November 26, 2003.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Smith-D1d.asp (904 words)

	Artdaily.com - The First Art Newspaper on the Net
		David Smith embodied an independence of spirit that characterized many of the American artists who emerged at the midpoint of the 20th Century.
		Smith’s genius for balancing void and solid, form and content, crude material and poetic spirit is the hallmark of his Cubi masterpieces.
		Smith’s similar concentration on the volumetric potentialities of the Cubis is demonstrated by the photograph taken by Dan Budnik of cardboard models Smith used to explore geometric variations and compositions.
	www.artdaily.com /section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=15463 (1210 words)

	Harvard University Art Museums - Past Exhibitions
		David Smith (1906-1965), acknowledged as the foremost American sculptor of the twentieth century, forged a distinct and unique identity as he helped to define what it meant to be an American avant-garde artist.
		Through his sculpture, as well as his lesser-known paintings and drawings, Smith combined imagery inspired by European innovations in cubism and surrealism with materials and techniques that evoke the power of American industry and technology.
		David Smith: "This work is my identity" is organized by Sarah Kianovsky, assistant curator of paintings and sculpture.
	www.artmuseums.harvard.edu /exhibitions/fogg/past/davidsmith.html (142 words)

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		David Smith was the undisputed master of modern American sculpture and one of the giants in his field internationally.
		David Smith was born on 9 March 1906 in Decatur, Illinois.
		Smith's technical skills at steelworking and his mastery of different assembly methods had a profound impact upon his art.
	www.thinker.org /fam/press/press.asp?presskey=71 (1157 words)

	Guggenheim Museum - Press Office - David Smith: A Centennial
		Deemed the "foremost sculptor of his generation" by art critic Clement Greenberg, David Smith (1906—1965) will be celebrated in the exhibition David Smith: A Centennial, the first retrospective of the artist's work in New York City since the Guggenheim's in 1969.
		David Smith: A Centennial will demonstrate the ways in which Smith developed and explored themes and forms through his early Surrealist - and Constructivist-inspired work, as well as his series of the 1950s and 1960s.
		Smith has been the subject of several exhibitions in the United States, and to a more limited extent, abroad.
	www.guggenheim.org /press_releases/release_118.html (681 words)

	David Smith Biography / Biography of David Smith Main Biography
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		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.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-david-smith (263 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)

	David Smith -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Smith was never trained as a sculptor, but he learned to work with metal in 1925, when he was briefly employed as a riveter at the Studebaker automobile plant in South Bend, Indiana.
		Smith's sculpture grew out of his early abstract paintings of urban scenes, which were reminiscent of the work of his friend Stuart Davis.
		Smith's interest in freestanding sculpture dates from the early 1930s, when he first saw illustrations of the welded metal sculpture of Pablo Picasso and another Spanish sculptor, Julio González.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9068276 (1223 words)

	David Smith: Drawing & Sculpting \| The Nasher Sculpture Center - Dallas, Texas - April 6-July 17, 2005
		David Smith: Drawing and Sculpting willfocus on Smith’s history and talents as a draftsman and explore the fascinating interaction between his drawings, paintings, and sculptures.
		Smith’s ideas about art and his methods are revealed in archival footage of the artist, through reminiscences of the sculptor by his daughters, and by fellow artists Helen Frankenthaler and the late Robert Motherwell.
		Nash and Smith are co-curators for the exhibition.
	artnewschannel.net /exhibition/2005/nasher_center_david_smith.html (948 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)

	Yale University Art Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		©Estate of David Smith / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY Cubi XXII is one of a series created by American modernist sculptor David Smith between 1961 and 1965.
		Smith intended the works to be exhibited outside.
		Of his practice as a sculptor, which he began in the 1920s at the Art Students League of New York, Smith wrote, "I want sculpture to show the wonder of man, that flowing water, rocks, clouds, vegetation, have for the man in peace who glories in existence."
	artgallery.yale.edu /pages/collection/popups/pc_modern/details13.html (114 words)

	NYO - Currently Hanging (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		David Smith (1906-1965) is generally considered the most significant American sculptor of the 20th century.
		Smith’s adventures in welded-steel sculpture, derived from the Cubist-inspired practice dubbed “drawing in space,” are given a generous airing.
		Smith’s hokey figurative allusions are reminders that he was a Surrealist before he was anything else.
	nyobserver.com /20060220/20060220_Mario_Naves_culture_currentlyhanging.asp (687 words)

	Harvard Gazette: 'Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art' offers fresh focus
		Smith is responsible for many other works in the collection.
		Her relationship with David Smith, however, fostered a different kind of collecting, one with an eye toward building a representative ensemble of Smith's paintings, photographs, and sculptures.
		Working collaboratively with Smith, with whom she developed a close friendship, Orswell devoted the end of her collecting career to assembling a major collection of Smith works, including the sculptures "Detroit Queen" (1957) and "Doorway on Wheels (1960).
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2002/12.05/18-orswell.html (888 words)

	Figurative sculpture fabricated in bronze by sculptor David Smith.
		C.V. Born in 1945, David spent most of his early childhood abroad in India, Egypt, Germany, and back to school in Britain, where he showed his interest in sculpture, with some carvings out of soap, followed by various wood carvings.
		In 1994 David's first commission for the ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISE LINE, was to produce six sculptures for their cruise liner 'LEGEND OF THE SEAS', the first of several commissions for R.C.C.L. They have all been sculpted using David's bronze fabrication technique, including the figure shown in the picture with David, to your right.
		David has recently been involved in creating in various kinds of wood, decorative carvings for the furniture, and interior design trades.
	www.sculpture-studio.ndirect.co.uk (686 words)

	Tate \| Press Releases
		David Smith (1906-1965) was the leading sculptor of the Abstract Expressionist movement and one of the foremost American artists of this century.
		Smith studied art at Ohio University in 1924-5 and then worked on the assembly line in a Studebaker Factory.
		David Smith worked in Voltri, Italy, in 1962 as a participant in the Spoleto Festival.
	www.tate.org.uk /home/press/21_0599.htm (622 words)

	Sculptor lectures on brilliant art of college dropout - Feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"Gradually," Stevens quoted Smith as saying, "the canvas became the base and the painting the sculpture." The final chapter in the evolution of Smith's artistic style was the combination of metal sculpture with installation art.
		And though there is little similarity between Smith's works, he said, all the pieces are unified by the fact that they were created by the same artist.
		In general, students found Stevens' presentation on the work of Smith to be interesting in terms of artistic talent, but lacking in proof of unity.
	www.dailyorange.com /media/paper522/news/2003/11/13/Feature/Sculptor.Lectures.On.Brilliant.Art.Of.College.Dropout-556818.shtml (511 words)

	Charlton Athletic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The tribute to Bartram - who was born on January 22nd, 1914, and made 623 appearances during a 22-year stay with the Addicks - is set to be officially unveiled by his daughter, Moira, who will fly in from her home in Canada to be part of the special day.
		The finishing post was reached sooner than anyone could have anticipated thanks to a significant donation from 34-year-old David Smith, a season-ticket holder in the west stand and a supporter since 1976.
		Sculptor Hawken, a Charlton fan, studied at the Royal Academy, and also has work displayed in the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert.
	www.charlton-athletic.co.uk /newsview.ink?nid=21566&newstype=d (574 words)

	Sculpture 'Cubi, Homage to David Smith' - Original Work - Unique Sculpture - One-of-a-kind piece from Tom Brewitz
		David Smith created contemporary sculptures in a set of work called the "Cubi Series" back in the 1950's and 1960's.
		Smith extended up from the ground a precarious assembly of three dimensional geometric forms like cylinders, cubes and rectangular tubes in combination to create his extraordinary sculpture.
		Brewitz fondness for Smith's work is revealed in the brushwork of many of his pieces.
	www.cornermark.com /bkwsculpture2.html (168 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - David Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Smith, David Roland (1906-1965), American sculptor, whose abstract metal constructions were an important and influential development in 20th-century...
		Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, and educated at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford.
		American sculpture began developing along more abstract lines during the 1930s when artists came in contact with contemporary European work, either...
	encarta.msn.com /David_Smith.html (137 words)

	David Smith -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of, Viscount Furneaux Of Charlton, Viscount Birkenhead Of Birkenhead, Baron Birkenhead Of Birkenhead
		He is best known for his Iron Law of Wages, which states that all attempts by workers to raise their income are futile: wages will always stay at the subsistence level.
		The use of metals in architecture and household objects was given fresh life by the art nouveau movement in the late 19th century.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9068276 (751 words)

	David J. Smith Art: PicassoMio.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A civil engineer by education, David has studied printmaking at the Tres Workshop in Madrid.
		David was born in Yorkshire, UK, in 1964.
		Since 1988, David has been living and working in Spain.
	www.picassomio.com /DavidJSmith (79 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
		All images and text on this David Smith page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/smith_david.html (483 words)

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