Having realized quite early that he had to be an artist, Smith made his way to New York and the Art Students League.
David Smith: Drawing + Sculpting : [exhibition], Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, April 16 - July 17, 2005
David Smith: A Centennial~ISBN 0-89207-343-8 U.S. $85.00 / Hardcover, 9.5 x 10.75 in. / 460 pgs / 300 color. ~Item / March / Art The foremost sculptor of his generation... --Clement Greenberg
"--Provided by publisher. “The David Smith that emerges here is impossible to simplify. He is learned and curious. He is obsessive, embattled, contradictory, and fierce. He is an artist of the utmost seriousness and commitment.
Sarah Hamill selected the writings and the previously unpublished interview with poet Frank O'Hara and wrote the central essay about the artist, drawing particular attention to the tradition of iron sculpture and the artist's vital ...
Most of these are female nudes, worked by Smith into strong, calligraphic forms that often extend the viscous fluidity of enamel (on canvas or linen) into near-abstraction.
David Smith: Ink Drawings from 1957
David Smith: Ink Drawings from 1957
David Smith: Drawing Space
The focus of this catalogue and exhibition is on how Smith used movement and stasis compositionally, physically and metaphorically in his work.
David Smith: Sculpture and Writings
David Smith: Drawings of the Fifties
This book contains colour illustrations and photographs of spray paintings, drawings and sculptures by David Smith.
Works by the American Abstract Expressionist sculptor and painter, best known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures.
" Pachner also sheds valuable light on Smith's prolific output of drawing, sketching, writing and photography.
For David Smith (19061965), widely considered one of the foremost American abstract expressionist sculptors of the 20th century, there was no conceptual boundary between mediums.
"--Provided by publisher. "The David Smith that emerges here is impossible to simplify. He is learned and curious. He is obsessive, embattled, contradictory, and fierce. He is an artist of the utmost seriousness and commitment.
With this book, richly illustrated with more than one hundred photographs, Brenson has contextualized Smith for a new generation of fans and confirmed his singular place in the history of American art.
Origins & Innovations brings together David Smith's (1906-65) early paintings, drawings and sculptures, alongside seminal later works that reimagine the possibilities of abstraction in three dimensions.
Though they are largely unknown, sculptor, draughtsman and painter David Smith took photographs of great depth, beauty and precision throughout his career--from 1931 until his death in 1965. The large...