One of the foremost artists of the twentieth century and the sculptor most closely linked to the Abstract Expressionist movement, David Smith is known for his use of industrial methods and materials, and the integration of open space into sculpture. Over a 33-year career, Smith greatly expanded the notion of what sculpture could be, questioning its relationship with the space it was created in and its final habitat; from the artist’s atelier and art foundry into the realms of industry and nature. Spanning pure abstraction and poetic figuration, Smith’s deeply humanist vision has inspired generations of sculptors for the decades since his death.
Born in 1906 in Decatur, Indiana, Smith worked as an automobile welder and riveter before moving to New York to study at the Art Students League. In 1929 he bought a farm in Bolton Landing, in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York—an idyllic location where he would settle permanently in 1940 and with which he would be forever associated. When Smith died suddenly at the age of 59 in a tragic car accident, he left behind an expansive, complex and powerful body of work that continues to exert influence upon younger generations of artists today. He is widely acknowledged to have created the first welded metal sculpture in America.
Painting and drawing remained integral to Smith’s creative output throughout his career. ‘Drawings,’ he claimed, ‘are studies for sculpture, sometimes what sculpture is, sometimes what sculpture never can be.’ Around 1958, almost immediately after the invention of the aerosol spray can, Smith began his Sprays. Made simultaneously with some of his most rigorously geometric sculpture, the Sprays are often loosely gestural. Though the Sprays freed Smith’s form from the sculptural constraints of gravity, for Smith the two mediums were conceptually continuous. With the Sprays, Smith adopted a medium that was developed from, and perfectly aligned with, his sculptural process, encapsulating the overlap between between his two- and three-dimensional activities.
David Smith
Biography
Print BiographySelected Solo Exhibitions
Four Sculptures’, Zurich, Switzerland
Hauser & Wirth New York, 69th Street, 'David Smith. Follow My Path', New York NY
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 'David Smith. As part of Yorkshire Sculpture International', West Bretton, England
Hauser & Wirth, 'Alexander Calder & David Smith', Zürich, Switzerland
Storm King Art Center, 'David Smith. The White Sculptures', Mountainville NY
Galerie Karsten Greve, 'David Smith: Drawings and Sculpture. Acting in Space', Paris, France
Ordovas Gallery, 'Giacometti-Smith', London, England
Craig F. Starr Gallery, 'Helen Frankenthaler and David Smith', New York NY
Wexner Center for the Arts, 'David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy', Columbus OH (Travelling exhibition)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 'David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy', Los Angeles CA (Travelling exhibition)
Whitney Museum of American Art, 'David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy', New York NY (Travelling exhibition)
The Phillips Collection, 'David Smith Invents', Washington DC
American Contemporary Art Gallery, 'David Smith: Paintings and Works on Paper from the 1950s', Munich, Germany
IVAM (Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno), Centro Julio González, 'Julio González/ David Smith: un diálogo sobre la escultura', Valencia, Spain
Galerie Gmurzynska, 'David Smith: Working Surface. Painting, Sculpture and Drawing 1932-1963', St. Moritz, Switzerland (Travelling exhibition)
Craig F. Starr Gallery, 'David Smith: Don Quixote', New York NY
Sitftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, 'David Smith: Working Surface: Painting, Sculpture and Drawing 1932-1963', Duisburg, Germany (Travelling exhibition)
Gagosian Gallery, 'David Smith: Sprays', New York NY
Margo Leavin Gallery, 'David Smith. Object and Image: Small Paintings 1954 – 1958', Los Angeles CA (Travelling exhibition)
Knoedler & Company, 'Seeing David Smith: Photographs by Dan Budnik', New York NY (Travelling exhibition)
Silvermine Guild Arts Center, 'Seeing David Smith: Photographs by Dan Budnik', New Canaan CT (Travelling exhibition)
The Hyde Collection, 'Seeing David Smith: Photographs by Dan Budnik', Glens Falls NY (Travelling exhibition)
Gagosian Gallery, 'David Smith: Personage', New York NY (Travelling exhibition)
Gagosian Gallery, 'David Smith: Personage' London, England (Travelling exhibition)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 'David Smith: A Centennial', New York NY (Travelling exhibition)
Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, 'David Smith: A Centennial', Paris, France (Travelling exhibition)
Tate Modern, 'David Smith: A Centennial', London, England (Travelling exhibition)
Nasher Sculpture Center, 'David Smith: Drawing + Sculpting', Dallas TX
Gagosian Gallery, 'David Smith, Related Clues: Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture 1931 – 1964', New York NY
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Chapelle des Petits-Augins, 'Dessins de David Smith: un choix d'Alain Kirili [Drawings by David Smith: Selected by Alain Kirili', Paris, France
Margo Leavin Gallery, 'David Smith. Ink Drawings from 1957', Los Angeles CA
Gagosian Gallery, 'David Smith. The Last Nudes', New York NY (Travelling exhibition)
Gagosian Gallery, 'David Smith. The Last Nudes', London, England (Travelling exhibition)
Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, 'David Smith: Two into Three Dimensions' Portland OR (Travelling exhibition)
Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, 'David Smith: Two into Three Dimensions', New Orleans LA (Travelling exhibition)
Mary and Leigh Block Art Museum, Northwestern University, 'David Smith: Two into Three Dimensions', Evanston IL (Travelling exhibition)
Lyman Allyn Museum of Art, Connecticut College, 'David Smith: Two into Three Dimensions', New London CT (Travelling exhibition)
National Academy of Design Museum, 'David Smith: Two into Three Dimensions', New York NY (Travelling exhibition)
Storm King Art Center, 'The Fields of David Smith', Mountainville NY
Storm King Art Center, 'The Fields of David Smith', Mountainville NY
Matthew Marks Gallery, 'David Smith: Photographs 1931 – 1965', New York NY (Travelling exhibition)
Fraenkel Gallery, 'David Smith: Photographs 1931 – 1965', San Francisco CA (Travelling exhibition)
Museum of Contemporary Art, 'David Smith: Stop Action', North Miami FL
Storm King Art Center, 'The Fields of David Smith', Mountainville NY
DePree Art Center, Hope College, 'David Smith: Medals for Dishonor', Holland MI, (Travelling exhibition)
Boston University Art Gallery, 'David Smith: Medals for Dishonor', Boston MA (Travelling exhibition)
IVAM (Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno), Centro Julio González, 'David Smith', Valencia, Spain (Travelling exhibition)
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 'David Smith', Madrid, Spain (Travelling exhibition)
Knoedler and Company, 'David Smith and Italy: Voltri Landscapes and Sprays', New York NY
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, 'David Smith and Italy: Voltri Landscapes and Sprays', Memphis TN
Prada MilanoArte, 'David Smith in Italy', Milan, Italy
Knoedler & Co, 'David Smith and Italy: Voltri Landscapes and Sprays', New York NY (Travelling exhibition)
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, 'David Smith and Italy: Voltri Landscapes and Sprays', Mephis TN (Travelling exhibition)
Knoedler Gallery, 'David Smith: To and From the Figure', New York NY (Travelling exhibition)
Akira Ikeda Gallery, 'David Smith: To and From the Figure', Tokyo, Japan (Travelling exhibition)
Galerie Piltzer, 'David Smith: To and From the Figure', Paris, France (Travelling exhibition)
Joan T. Washburn Gallery, 'David Smith: The Inspiration of Music', New York NY
Sezon Museum of Art, 'David Smith', Tokyo, Japan (Travelling exhibition)
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 'David Smith', Shizuoka, Japan (Travelling exhibition)
The Museum of Modern Art, 'David Smith', Shiga, Japan (Travelling exhibition)
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, 'David Smith', Chiba, Japan (Travelling exhibition)
Margo Leavin Gallery, 'David Smith. The Charcoal Drawings: 1958', Los Angeles CA
The Museum of Modern Art, 'David Smith: Medals For Dishonor, 1937 – 1940', Oxford, England (Travelling exhibition)
Leeds City Art Gallery, 'David Smith: Medals For Dishonor, 1937 – 1940', Leeds, England (Travelling exhibition)
Arnolfini Gallery, 'David Smith: Medals For Dishonor, 1937 – 1940', Bristol, England (Travelling exhibition)
Heide Park and Art Gallery, The Fourth Australian Sculpture Triennial, 'David Smith: Drawings and Sculpture', Bulleen, Victoria, Australia
Knoedler & Company, 'David Smith. Nudes: Drawings and Paintings from 1927 – 1964', New York NY (Travelling exhibition)
The Montclair Art Museum, 'David Smith. Nudes: Drawings and Paintings from 1927 – 1964', Montclair NJ (Travelling exhibition)
Margo Leavin Gallery, 'David Smith: Works on Paper', Los Angeles CA
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 'David Smith: Drawings of the Fifties', London, England
The Frederick R. Meyer Art Center, The Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, 'The Drawings of David Smith', Exeter NH
Pace Prints, 'David Smith: The Prints', New York NY
Galerie Hans Strelow, 'David Smith, Die reifen Jahre, 1951 – 1965: Skulpturen und Zeichnungen [David Smith, the Mature Years, 1951 – 1965: Sculpture and Drawings]', Düsseldorf, Germany
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 'David Smith, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen [David Smith, Sculpture and Drawings]', Düsseldorf, Germany (Travelling exhibition)
Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, 'David Smith, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen [David Smith, Sculpture and Drawings]' Frankfurt, Germany (Travelling exhibition)
Whitechapel Art Gallery, 'David Smith, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen [David Smith, Sculpture and Drawings]', London, England (Travelling exhibition)
St. Louis Art Museum, 'The Drawings of David Smith', St. Louis MO (Travelling exhibition)
'The Frederick R. Mayer Art Center, Phillips Exeter Academy, 'The Drawings of David Smith' Exeter NH (Travelling exhibition)
Anthony d'Offay, 'David Smith: Sprays From Bolton Landing', London, England
Nielsen Gallery, 'David Smith: Selected Drawings, 1946 – 1960', Boston MA
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 'Dorothy Dehner/David Smith: Their Decades of Search and Fulfillment', New Brunswick NJ (Travelling exhibition) Skidmore College Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs NY (Travelling exhibition)
Jeffrey Hoffeld & Co., Inc, 'David Smith: Drawings for Sculpture, 1954 – 1960', New York NY
Arts Club of Chicago, 'David Smith: Spray Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture', Chicago IL
Milwaukee Art Museum, 'David Smith: Workbook Drawings for Sculpture (1954 – 1964)', Milwaukee WI
M. Knoedler & Co., 'David Smith: Sculpture, Painting, Drawing', New York NY
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 'From The Life of the Artist: A Documentary View of David Smith', Washington DC (Travelling exhibition)
San Antonio Museum of Art, 'From The Life of the Artist: A Documentary View of David Smith', San Antonio TX (Travelling exhibition)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Smithsonian Institution, 'David Smith. Painter, Sculptor, Draftsman', Washington DC (Travelling exhibition)
San Antonio Museum of Art, 'David Smith. Painter, Sculptor, Draftsman', San Antonio TX (Travelling exhibition)
Storm King Art Center, 'David Smith: Drawings for Sculpture, 1954 – 1964', Mountainville NY
Janie C. Lee Gallery, 'David Smith: Drawings', Houston TX
Klonaridis Gallery, 'David Smith: Drawings', Toronto ON
Mekler Gallery, 'David Smith, Drawings for Sculpture: 1954 – 1964', Los Angeles CA
Edmonton Art Gallery, 'David Smith, The Formative Years: Sculptures and Drawings from the 1930's and 1940's', Edmonton AB (Travelling exhibition)
Art Museum, 'David Smith, The Formative Years: Sculptures and Drawings from the 1930's and 1940's', Seattle WA (Travelling exhibition)
Winnipeg Art Gallery, 'David Smith, The Formative Years: Sculptures and Drawings from the 1930's and 1940's', Winnipeg MB (Travelling exhibition)
Art Gallery of Hamilton, 'David Smith, The Formative Years: Sculptures and Drawings from the 1930's and 1940's', Hamilton ON (Travelling exhibition)
Art Gallery of Windsor, 'David Smith, The Formative Years: Sculptures and Drawings from the 1930's and 1940's', Windsor ON (Travelling exhibition)
M. Knoedler and Company, 'David Smith, The Formative Years: Sculptures and Drawings from the 1930's and 1940's', New York NY (Travelling exhibition)
M. Knoedler and Company, 'David Smith: Drawings with Color', New York NY
Serpentine Gallery, 'David Smith: The Drawings', London, England (Travelling exhibition) Detroit Institute of Art, 'David Smith: The Drawings', Detroit MI (Travelling exhibition)
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 'David Smith: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection', Washington DC
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, 'David Smith, Robert Motherwell', Caracas, Venezuela
Hans Strelow Gallery, 'David Smith: Important Drawings from the Estate of the American Sculptor (1906 – 1965)', Düsseldorf, Germany
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 'David Smith: Sculpture, Drawings, and Paintings',
Cambridge MA
Galerie Wentzel, 'David Smith 1906 –1965: Wichtige Zeichungen aus dem Nachlass [Important Drawings from the Estate', Hamburg, Germany
Knoedler Contemporary Art, 'David Smith: Paintings', New York NY
Knoedler Contemporary Art, 'David Smith: Small Sculptures', New York NY
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Graphische Sammlung, 'David Smith: Zeichnungen [David Smith: Drawings]', Stuttgart, Germnay (Travelling exhibition)
Nationalgalerie Berlin Staatl. Museen Preusß, 'David Smith: Zeichnungen [David Smith: Drawings]', Berlin, Germany (Travelling exhibition)
Kulturbesitz, 'David Smith: Zeichnungen [David Smith: Drawings]', Berlin, Germany (Travelling exhibition)
Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum der Stadt Duisburg, 'David Smith: Zeichnungen [David Smith: Drawings]', Duisburg, Germany (Travelling exhibition)
American Federation of the Arts, 'Dan Budnik: The Terminal Iron Works, Photographs of His Friend David Smith, 1962/1963', New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Albany, 'Dan Budnik: The Terminal Iron Works, Photographs of His Friend David Smith, 1962/1963', New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
University of Texas, 'Dan Budnik: The Terminal Iron Works, Photographs of His Friend David Smith, 1962/1963', Austin TX (Travelling Exhibition)
Rockland Community College, 'Dan Budnik: The Terminal Iron Works, Photographs of His Friend David Smith, 1962/1963', Suffern NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Center for Music, Drama and Art, 'Dan Budnik: The Terminal Iron Works, Photographs of His Friend David Smith, 1962/1963', Lake Placid NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, 'Dan Budnik: The Terminal Iron Works, Photographs of His Friend David Smith, 1962/1963' Hanover NH (Travelling Exhibition)
Hudson River Museum, 'Dan Budnik: The Terminal Iron Works, Photographs of His Friend David Smith, 1962/1963' Yonkers NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Charles W. Bowers Memorial Museum, 'Dan Budnik: The Terminal Iron Works, Photographs of His Friend David Smith, 1962/1963', Santa Ana CA (Travelling Exhibition)
Knoedler Contemporary Art, 'David Smith: Drawings', New York NY
The Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 'David Smith', Dallas TX (Travelling exhibition)
The Corcoran Gallery, 'David Smith', Washington DC (Travelling exhibition)
The Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 'David Smith 1906 – 1965', Washington DC (Travelling exhibition)
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, 'David Smith 1906 – 1965', Otterlo, Netherlands (Travelling exhibition)
Tate Gallery, 'David Smith 1906 – 1965', London, England (Travelling exhibition)
Kunsthalle, 'David Smith 1906 – 1965', Basel, Switzerland (Travelling exhibition)
Stadische Kunstsammlung, 'David Smith 1906 – 1965', Nuremberg, Germany (Travelling exhibition)
Kusthalle, 'David Smith 1906 – 1965', Nuremberg, Germany (Travelling exhibition)
Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, 'David Smith 1906 – 1965', Duisburg, Germany (Travelling exhibition)
The Hyde Collection, 'David Smith 1906 – 1965', Glens Falls NY
Drawings', Philadelphia PA
The Hyde Collection, 'David Smith', Glens Falls NY
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery Inc., 'David Smith', New York NY
Bowling Green State University, 'David Smith: Drawings', Bowling Green OH (Travelling exhibition)
University of Manitoba, 'David Smith: Drawings', Winnipeg MB (Travelling exhibition)
Northern Michigan University, 'David Smith: Drawings', Marquette MI (Travelling exhibition)
Mankato State College, 'David Smith: Drawings', Mankato MI (Travelling exhibition)
State College of Oswego, 'David Smith: Drawings', Oswego NY (Travelling exhibition)
J.B. Speed Art Museum, 'David Smith: Drawings', Louisville KY (Travelling exhibition)
Paterson State College, 'David Smith: Drawings', Wayne NJ (Travelling exhibition)
Green Mountain College, 'David Smith: Drawings', Poultney VT (Travelling exhibition)
Madison Art Association, 'David Smith: Drawings', Madison WI (Travelling exhibition)
University of Detroit, 'David Smith: Drawings', Detroit MI (Travelling exhibition)
Skidmore College, 'David Smith: Drawings', Saratoga Springs NY (Travelling exhibition)
Wichita State University, 'David Smith: Drawings', Wichita KS (Travelling exhibition)
Fresno State College, 'David Smith: Drawings', Fresno CA (Travelling exhibition)
Balin-Traube Gallery, 'David Smith: A Decade of Drawings 1953 – 63', New York NY
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 'David Smith', New York NY (Travelling exhibition)
The Phillips-Exeter Academy, 'David Smith: Recent Sculpture', Exteter NH (Travelling exhibition)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 'David Smith: Recent Sculpture', Cambridge MA (Travelling exhibition)
Phillips Collection, 'David Smith: Recent Sculpture', Washington DC (Travelling exhibition)
Herron Museum of Art, 'David Smith: Recent Sculpture', Indianapolis IN (Travelling exhibition)
Wadsworth Atheneum, 'David Smith: Recent Sculpture', Hartford CT (Travelling exhibition)
Southern Illinois University, 'David Smith: Recent Sculpture', Carbondale IL (Travelling exhibition)
Witte Memorial Museum, 'David Smith: Recent Sculpture', San Antonio TX (Travelling exhibition)
French & Company, Inc., 'Sculpture by David Smith', New York NY
The New Gallery, Bennington College, 'David Smith', Bennington VT
Fine Arts Associates, Otto M. Gerson, 'Sculpture by David Smith', New York NY
The Museum of Modern Art, 'David Smith', New York NY
Willard Art Gallery, 'David Smith', New York NY
Art Centre Gallery, Indiana University, 'David Smith', Bloomington IN
Willard Gallery, 'David Smith: Drawings', New York NY
Catholic University, 'Drawing, Paintings and Sculpture by David Smith', Washington DC
University of Arkansas, 'David Smith', Fayetteville AR
Kootz Gallery, in association with the Willard Gallery, 'David Smith: New Sculpture', New York NY
Catholic University, 'Drawings, Paintings, and Sculptures by David Smith', Washington DC
Walker Art Center, 'Sculpture and Drawings: David Smith', Minneapolis MN
Willard Gallery and Kleeman Galleries, 'David Smith: Sculpture and Drawing', New York NY
Willard Gallery, 'David Smith', New York NY
Skidmore College, 'Sculpture and Drawings by David Smith', Saratoga Springs NY
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 'David Smith', Utica NY
John Woodman Higgins Armory, 'Untitled Exhibition', Worcester MA
American Association of University Women, Baker Hotel, 'David Smith', Dallas TX (Travelling exhibition)
Gary Public Library, 'David Smith', Gary IN (Travelling exhibition)
Fort Wayne Civic Theatre, 'David Smith', Fort Worth IN (Travelling exhibition)
Worcester Pressed Steel Museum, 'David Smith', Worcester MA (Travelling exhibition)
Indiana State Teachers College, 'David Smith', Terre Haute IN (Travelling exhibition)
East Central State College and Public Library, 'David Smith', Ada OK (Travelling exhibition)
City Library, 'David Smith', Logan UT (Travelling exhibition)
Provo Public Library, 'David Smith', Provo IT (Travelling exhibition)
Butler Institute of Art, 'David Smith', Youngstown OH (Travelling exhibition)
Roosevelt College, 'David Smith', Chicago IL (Travelling exhibition)
St. Paul Gallery, and School of Art, 'Untitled Exhibition', St. Paul MI
Michigan State College, 'David Smith', East Lansing MI (Travelling exhibition)
Junior Gallery, 'David Smith', Louisville KY (Travelling exhibition)
Grinnell College, 'David Smith', Grinnell IA (Travelling exhibition)
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 'David Smith', Auburn AL (Travelling exhibition)
Willard Gallery, 'David Smith', New York NY
Willard Gallery, 'Jewelry by David Smith', New York NY
Kalamazoo Institute of Art, 'Medals For Dishonor', Kalamazoo MI
Neumann/Willard Gallery, 'David Smith', New York NY
St. Paul Gallery and School of Art, 'David Smith', Saint Paul MN (Travelling exhibition)
University Gallery, University of Minnesota, 'David Smith', Minneapolis MN (Travelling exhibition)
Selected Group Exhibitions
Centre de la Vieille Charité – Ville de Marseille, 'Le Surréalisme dans l'art américain', Marseille, France
Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Monsters and Myths: Trans-Atlantic Surrealism in the 1930s and 1940s', Baltimore MD (Travelling exhibition)
Hirschl & Adler, 'The Masters: Art Students League Teachers and their Students', New York NY (forthcoming)
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 'Monsters and Myths: Trans-Atlantic Surrealism in the 1930s and 1940s', Hartford CT (Travelling exhibition)
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 'Sculpture on the Move 1946 – 2016', Basel, Switzerland
Folkwang Museum, 'The Looser Collection. Dialogues', Essen, Germany
Royal Academy of Arts, 'Abstract Expressionism', London, England
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 'Marvelous Objects: Surrealist Sculpture from Paris to New York', Washington DC
Yale University Art Gallery, 'The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art: Selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection and Yale University Art Gallery', New Haven CT
Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, 'Tutto e felice nella vita dell'arte: Omaggio a Giovanni Carandente', Milan, Italy
Gagosian Gallery, 'Sprayed: Works from 1929 – 2015', London, England
Whitney Museum of American Art, 'America is Hard to See', New York NY
Paul Kasmin Gallery, 'The New York School, 1969: Henry Geldzahler at the Metropolitan Museum of Art', New York NY
Craig F. Starr Gallery, 'Helen Frankenthaler and David Smith',New York NY
Mnuchin Gallery, 'Casting Modernity: Bronze in the XXth Century', New York NY
Freedman Art, 'Carved, Cast, Crushed and Constructed', New York NY
Denver Art Museum, 'Modern Masters: 20th Century Icons from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery', Denver CO
Phillips Collection, 'Made in the USA: American Masters from the Phillips Collection, 1850 – 1970', Washington DC
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, 'The Nancy Graves Project & Special Guests', Aachen, Germany
Hauser & Wirth, 'Re-View: Onnasch Collection', London, England
Fondation Fernet-Branca, 'Abstraction Americaine', Saint-Louis, France
Hollis Taggert Galleries, 'Summer Selections', New York NY
Tacoma Art Museum, 'Drawing Line into Form: Works on Paper by Sculptors from the collection of BNY Mellon', Tacoma WA
The Hyde Collection, 'Fifty at Fifty: Five Decades of Collecting at The Hyde', Glens Falls NY
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 'Encounters with the '30s', Madrid, Spain
State Hermitage Museum, 'Medals of Dishonour', St. Petersburg, Russia
Royal Academy of Arts, 'Bronze', London, England
Whitney Museum of American Art, 'Signs & Symbols', New York NY
Pace Gallery, 'Mythology', New York NY
Ordovas Gallery, 'Julio González: First Master of the Torch', London, England
Dallas Museum of Art, 'Face to Face: International Art at the DMA', Dallas TX
Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York at Purchase, 'American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning, and Their Circle, 1927 – 1942', Purchase NY
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Art Archive, 'Abstract Expressionisms: Painting and Drawings from the Collection', Berkeley CA
Margo Leavin Gallery, 'Drawn', Los Angeles CA
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 'Carolina Collects: 150 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art from Alumni Collections', Chapel Hill NC
Gagosian Gallery, 'Made in Italy', Rome, Italy
National Portrait Gallery, 'Capital Portraits: Treasures from Washington Private Collections', Washington DC
The Phillips Collection, 'David Smith Invents', Washington D.C. WA
Williams College Museum of Art, 'Reflections on a Museum: The Medium and the Message', Williamstown MA
Gagosian Gallery, 'Malevich and the American Legacy', New York NY
Galerie Gmurzynska, 'Miro-Chagall-Smith-Calder', Zürich, Switzerland
Danese Gallery, 'Works on Paper II', New York NY
American Contemporary Art Gallery, 'David Smith: Paintings and Works on Paper from the 1950s', Munich, Germany
The British Museum, 'Picasso to Julie Mehretu: Modern Drawings from the British Museum Collection', London, England
The Museum of Modern Art, 'Abstract Expressionist New York', New York NY
Gagosian Gallery, 'Masters of the Gesture', Los Angeles CA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 'The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today', New York NY (Travelling exhibition)
Kunsthaus Zürich, 'The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today', Zürich, Switzerland (Travelling exhibition)
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Advancing Abstraction in Modern Sculpture', Baltimore MD
D'Amelio-Terras Gallery, 'Spray', New York NY
Hill Gallery, 'Summertime', Birmingham MI
United States Embassy, 'Americans Abroad: Masterworks by Modern and Contemporary Artists', London, England
The Art Institute of Chicago, 'Modern in America: Works on Paper, 1900 – 1950s', Chicago IL
Amon Carter Museum, 'American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum', Austin TX (Travelling exhibition)
Portland Museum of Art, 'American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum', Portland ME (Travelling exhibition)
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 'American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum', Hartford CT (Travelling exhibition)
Meadows Museum, 'Face and Form: Modern and Contemporary Sculpture in the Meadows Collection', Dallas TX
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 'Abstract Expressionism: Further Evidence (Part Two: Sculpture)', New York NY
The British Museum, 'Medals of Dishonor', London, England
Galerie Gmurzynska, 'Aspects of Pop', Zürich, Switzerland
Thomas McCormick Gallery, '1959', Chicago IL
Tate Liverpool, 'DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture', Liverpool, England
Danese Gallery, 'Sculpture and Drawings', New York NY
Bennington Museum, 'Tradition, Innovation, and Good Design: The Ceramics of David Gil', Bennington VT
Whitney Museum of American Art, 'Sites', New York NY
Gagosian Gallery, 'Marble', New York NY
Institut Valenciá d'Art Modern (IVAM), 'La Escultura en la Coleccion del IVAM', Valencia, Spain
Krannert Art Museum, 'New Installation of The Rosann Gelvin Noel Gallery', Champaign IL
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 'The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia' New York NY
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, 'New York New Drawings: 1946 – 2007', Segovia, Spain
Bruce Museum, 'Innovations in the Third Dimension: Sculpture of Our Time', Greenwich CT
The Morgan Library and Museum, 'The Thaw Collection of Master Drawings: Acquisitions Since 2002', New York NY
Lora Reynolds Gallery, 'Photography in the Abstract', Austin TX
Russell Bowman Art Advisory, 'Geometry as Image', Chicago IL
Washburn Gallery, 'The Cedar Bar', New York NY
– 1949: Repartir á zero, comme si la peinture n'avait jamais existe', Lyon, France
Gagosian Gallery, 'Untitled (Vicarious): Photographing the Constructed Object', New York NY
Nasher Sculpture Center, 'In Pursuit of the Masters: Stories from the Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection', Dallas TX
Gagosian Gallery, 'For What You Are About to Receive', Moscow, Russia
Haunch of Venison, 'Abstract Expressionism -- A World Elsewhere', New York NY
Chazen Museum of Art, 'Modernist Sculpture: The Teresa and Alvin S. Lane Collection', Madison WI
The Parrish Art Museum, 'Sand: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor', Southampton NY
Art Institute of Chicago, 'Collecting for Chicago: Prints, Drawings, and Patronage: Five Families Build Collections of Works on Paper for the Art Institute of Chicago', Chicago IL
National Gallery of Canada, 'The 1930s: The Making of The New Man', Ottawa ON
The Jewish Museum, 'Action/Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940 – 1976', New York NY (Travelling exhibition)
Saint Louis Art Museum, 'Action/Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940 – 1976', St. Louis MO (Travelling exhibition)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 'Action/Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940 – 1976', Buffalo NY (Travelling exhibition)
Nasher Sculpture Center, 'Beyond the Grasp: Sculpture Transcending the Physical', Dallas TX
Princeton University Art Museum, 'An Educated Eye: The Princeton University Art Museum Collection', Princeton NJ
The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, 'Collecting Collections: Highlights from The Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art', Los Angeles CA
The Phillips Collection, 'Degas to Diebenkorn: The Phillips Collects', Washington DC
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'Abstract Expressionist Drawings', New York NY
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, '1937: Perfektion und Zerstörung [1937: Perfection and Destruction]', Bielefeld, Germany
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, '"Don't Look,” Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna's Collection (Martina Yamin, Class of 1958)', Wellesley MA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art', New York NY
Yale University Art Gallery, 'Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century. Celebrating the 175th Anniversary of the Yale University Art Gallery and the Centennial of Paul Mellon's Birth', New Haven CT
The Contemporary Museum, 'Nineteen Going on Twenty: Recent Acquisitions from the Collection of The Contemporary Museum', Honolulu HI
Waqas Wajahat in association with Ingrao Gallery, 'Landscape: Form and Thought', New York NY
Washburn Gallery, 'The Picasso Influence in Pollock, Rothko and Smith' New York NY
Addison Gallery of American Art, 'Coming of Age: American Art, 1950s to 1950s', Andover MA
The Grimaldi Forum, 'New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Film, Music, and Video', Monte Carlo NY
Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., 'Toward a New American Cubism', New York NY
Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, 'Archival to Contemporary: Six Decades of the Sculptors Guild', Brookville NY
ACA Galleries, 'Continuum: Celebrating the 130th Anniversary of the Arts Students League of New York', New York NY
Joan T. Washburn Gallery, 'Salute to the 130th Anniversary of the Art Students League of New York', New York NY
Danese Gallery, 'Works on Paper', New York NY
Thomas McCormick Gallery, 'Black', Chicago IL
National Academy of Design, 'Surrealism USA', New York NY
Tucson Museum of Art, 'Paint on Metal: Modern and Contemporary Explorations and Discoveries', Tucson AZ
Gagosian Gallery, 'David Smith/Alexander Calder: Large Scale Works', New York NY
Rockford Art Museum, 'Reuniting an Era: Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s', Rockford IL
Sarah Lawrence College, Monika A. and Charles A. Heimbold Jr. Visual Arts Center, 'Forging New Visions: Teaching the Visual Arts at Sarah Lawrence College', Bronxville NY
Garth Clark Gallery, 'Bare Clay: Ceramic Nudes in 20th-Century Art', New York NY
Donjon de Vez, 'Sculpture Monumentale Américaine [Monumental American Sculpture]', Vez, France
Gagosian Gallery, 'Drawings', London, England
Danese Gallery, 'Black/White', New York NY
Acquavella Gallery, '20th Century Sculpture', New York NY
Knoedler Gallery, 'Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art', New York NY (Travelling exhibition)
Indianapolis Museum of Art, 'Crossroads of American sculpture: David Smith, George Rickey, John Chamberlain, Robert Indiana, William T. Wiley, Bruce Nauman', Indianapolis IN
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, 'La sculpture moderne au Jardin des Tuileries', Paris, France
Thomas Ammann Fine Art, 'Selected Works from the Collection of Asher B. Edelman', Zürich, Switzerland
The Brooklyn Museum, 'The Machine Age in America 1918 – 1941', Brooklyn NY
Centre Georges Pompidou, 'Qu'est ce que c'est la sculpture modern? [What is Modern Sculpture?]', Paris, France
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, 'Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, 1927 – 1944', Pittsburgh PA
The Drawing Center, 'Sculptor's Drawings over Six Centuries: 1400 – 1950', New York NY
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 'Skulpturen der Moderne: Julio González, David Smith, Anthony Caro, Tim Scott, Michael Steiner', Bielefeld, Germany
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, 'David Smith, Robert Motherwell', Caracas, Venezuela
Lake George Arts Project, 'The Prospect Mountain Sculpture Show: An Homage to David Smith', New York NY
Daniel Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, 'Graham, Gorky, Smith and Davis in the Thirties', Providence RI
The Art Galleries, University of California, 'Seven Plus Five: Sculptors in the 1950s', Santa Barbara CA
University of Texas, 'Dan Budnik: The Terminal Iron Works, Photographs of His Friend David Smith, 1962/1963', Austin TX (Travelling exhibition)
Rockland Community College, 'Dan Budnik: The Terminal Iron Works, Photographs of His Friend David Smith, 1962/1963', Suffern NY (Travelling exhibition)
Center for Music, Drama and Art, 'Dan Budnik: The Terminal Iron Works, Photographs of His Friend David Smith, 1962/1963', Lake Placid NY (Travelling exhibition)
Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, 'Dan Budnik: The Terminal Iron Works, Photographs of His Friend David Smith, 1962/1963', Hanover NH (Travelling exhibition)
Hudson River Museum, 'Dan Budnik: The Terminal Iron Works, Photographs of His Friend David Smith, 1962/1963', Yonkers NY (Travelling exhibition)
Charles W. Bowers Memorial Museum, 'Dan Budnik: The Terminal Iron Works, Photographs of His Friend David Smith, 1962/1963', Santa Ana CA (Travelling exhibition)
Museum of Fine Arts, 'The Great Decade of American Abstraction: Modernist Art 1960 to 1970', Houston TX
The Museum of Modern Art, 'Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage', New York NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 'American Sculpture of the 60s', Los Angeles CA
Musée Rodin, 'Etats Unis: Sculpteurs du XXe Siècle [20th-century American Sculptors]', Paris, France
The White House, 'Festival of the Arts', Washington DC
Kassel, 'Documenta III', Kassel, Gemany
World's Fair, 'New York State Pavilion', New York NY
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation at the Tate Gallery, ''54 – '64: Paintings and Sculpture of a Decade', London, England
Battersea Park, London County Council, 'Sculpture in the Open Air: Exhibition of Contemporary British and American Works', London, England
Art Institute of Chicago, '66th Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture', Chicago IL
Otto Gerson Gallery, 'Monumental Sculpture', New York NY
Fine Arts Pavillion, World's Fair, 'Art Since 1950', Seattle WA
Whitney Museum of American Art, 'Geometric Abstraction in America', New York NY
Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, 'Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture', Pittsburgh PA
New School for Social Research, 'Mechanism and Organism', New York NY
The Museum of Modern Art, 'The Art of Assemblage', New York NY
Rochester Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 'Paintings and Sculpture from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery', Rochester NY
Otto Gerson Gallery, 'Selections: Painting, Sculpture, Summer-Fall', New York NY
Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, V São Paulo Bienal, 'U.S. Representation: Smith, Guston, Francis, Kadish, Frankenthaler, Goldberg, Kohn, Leslie, Marca-Reilli, Metcalf, Mitchell, Rauschenberg', São Paulo, Brazil
Kassel, 'Dokumenta II: Skulptur', Kassel, Germany
The Museum of Modern Art, 'Recent Sculpture, U.S.A.', New York NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, 'The Museum and Its Friends--18 Living American Artists', New York NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, 'Annual Exhibition of Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings', New York NY
Museum of Fine Arts, 'The Human Image', Houston TX
XXIX Biennale di Venezia, 'U.S. Representation: Lipton, Rothko, Smith and Tobey', Venice, Italy
World's Fair, 'United States Pavilion', Brussels, Belgium
Whitney Museum of American Art, 'Nature in Abstraction', New York NY
Contemporary Arts Museum, 'Irons in the Fire: An Exhibition of Metal Sculpture', Houston TX
Albany Institute of History and Art, '20th-Century Moderns', New York NY
Art Institute of Chicago, 'LXII American Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture', Chicago IL
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 'American Sculpture Today', Richmond VA
Musée Rodin, 'Exposition internationale de sculpture contemporaine [International Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture]', Paris, France
Whitney Museum of American Art, 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings', New York NY
Munson-Willliams-Proctor Institute, 'The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture', Utica NY
San Francisco Museum of Art, 'Three Contemporary Sculptors', San Francsico CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, 'Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture and Watercolors', New York NY
Art Institute of Chicago, '61st American Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture', Chicago IL
XXVII Venice Biennale, 'American Representation: 2 Pittori, 3 Scultori [2 Painters, 3 Sculptors]', Venice, Italy
Whitney Museum of American Art, 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings', New York NY
Nebraska Art Association, '64th Annual Exhibition', Lincoln NE
Sculpture Center, 'Exhibition: Welded Sculpture', New York NY
Art Institute of Chicago, '12th Annual Exhibition', Chicago IL
Whitney Museum of American Art, 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings', New York NY
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, '147th Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture', Pennsylvania PA
Art Institute of Chicago, '60th Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture', Chicago IL
Museu de Arte Moderna, 'I Bienal de São Paulo, U.S. Representation', São Paulo, Brazil
University of Minnesota, '34 American Artists', Minneapolis MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings', New York NY
The Museum of Modern Art, 'Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America', New York NY
American University, 'Tradition and Experiment: An Exhibition of Modern Sculpture', Washington DC
Watkins Memorial Gallery, American University, 'Tradition and Experiment: An Exhibition of Modern Sculpture', Washington D.C. WA
Department of Fine Arts, University of Pittsburgh, 'Tradition and Experiment: An Exhibition of Modern Sculpture', Pittsburgh PN
School of Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon, 'Tradition and Experiment: An Exhibition of Modern Sculpture', Eugene OR
Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, 'Tradition and Experiment: An Exhibition of Modern Sculpture', Palm Beach FL
J. B. Speed Art Museum, 'Tradition and Experiment: An Exhibition of Modern Sculpture', Louisville KE
The Museum of Modern Art, 'Carvers, Modelers, Welders: A Selection of Recent American Sculpture', New York NY
Provincetown Art Association, 'Post-Abstract Painting 1950--France and America', Provincetown MA
Middelheim Park, 'International Open Air Exhibition', Antwerp, Belgium
Smith College Museum, 'Works of Art Belonging to Alumnae', Northampton, MA
Whitney Museum of American Art, 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings', New York NY
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 'Modern Sculpture', Richmond VA
Fairmont Park Art Association, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 'Third Sculpture International Exhibition', Fairmont PA
The Art Gallery of Toronto, 'Contemporary Paintings from the United States, Great Britain and France', Toronto CA
State University of Iowa, 'Fifth Summer Exhibition of Contemporary Art', Iowa City IA
Whitney Museum of American Art, 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings', New York NY
Willard Gallery, 'Group Show', New York NY
Sculptors' Guild, '10th Outdoor Sculptors Exhibition', New York NY
Laurel Gallery, 'Untitled', New York NY
Worcester Art Museum, 'Sculpture at the Crossroads', Worcester MA
Whitney Museum of American Art, 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings', New York NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'American Sculpture', New York NY
Clay Club Sculpture Center, 'Abstract and Non-Objective Sculpture', New York NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings', New York NY
Essex Arts Association, 'Untitled', Essex CT
Yale Gallery of Fine Arts, 'Modern American Painting and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art', New Haven CT
Willard Gallery, 'Selections from the Marion Willard Gallery', New York NY
University of Nebraska, Nebraska Art Association, '57th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art', Lincoln NE
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, '142nd Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture', Pennsylvania PA
Howard University Gallery of Art, 'Exhibition of Modern Sculpture', Washington DC
Wildenstein Gallery, 'Sixth Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by Members of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors', New York NY
Albany Institute of History and Art, '11th Annual Exhibition of Artists of the Upper Hudson', Albany NY
Yale University Art Gallery, 'Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture: Objects – Constructions', New Haven CT
City Art Museum of St. Louis, 'Origins of Modern Sculpture', St. Louis MO (Travelling Exhibition)
Detroit Institute of Arts, 'Origins of Modern Sculpture', Detroit MI (Travelling Exhibition)
Whitney Museum of American Art, 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings', New York NY
Albany Institute of History and Art, 'Tenth Annual Exhibition of the Artists of the Upper Hudson', Albany NY
Buchholz Gallery, 'Recent Work by American Sculptors', New York NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings', New York NY
Albany Institute of History and Art, '9th Annual Exhibit of Artists of the Upper Hudson', Albany NY
Buchholz/Willard Galleries, 'American Sculpture of Our Time', New York NY
Albany Institute of History and Art, 'American Drawing Annual III', Albany NY
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, 'Art Begins at Home 1943: The Addison Gallery Gift Plan', Andover Massachusetts
Whitney Museum of American Art, '1942 – 1943 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art', New York NY
Sculptors' Guild, Rockefeller Center, 'Fourth Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition', New York NY
Albany Institute of History and Art, 'Seventh Annual Exhibition--Artists of the Upper Hudson', Albany NY
Willard Gallery, 'Group Show', New York NY
Buchholz Gallery, 'Seventy-Five Selected Prints / Small Sculptures', New York NY
The Museum of Modern Art, '15 American Sculptors', New York NY
Congress of American Artists, Hotel Commodore, 'Anti-War Show', New York NY
Albany Institute of History and Art, '6th Annual Exhibition of Artists of the Upper Hudson', New York NY
Sculptors' Guild, Village Square, 'Third Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition', New York NY
Albany Institute of History and Art, 'Sculptors Guild Traveling Exhibition', Albany NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, 'Annual Exhibition of Sculpture, Watercolors, Drawings and Prints', New York NY
Buchholz Gallery, 'Contemporary U.S. Sculpture', New York NY
Bonestell Gallery, 'Twelve Sculptors', New York NY
Albany Institute of History and Art, 'Sculptors' Guild Travelling Exhibition', Albany NY
New York Worlds Fair, 'Exhibition of Contemporary American Art', New York NY
Riverside Museum, 'Third Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture, and Prints by American Abstract Artists', New York NY
New School for Social Research, 'United American Sculptors Exhibition', New York NY
Onya La Tour Gallery, 'Summer Group Showing of Painters and Sculptors', New York NY
John Wanamaker, 'Second Annual Membership Exhibition of the American Artists' Congress', New York NY
Federal Art Project Works Progress Administration at the Federal Art Gallery, 'Sculpture Exhibition', New York NY
Fine Arts Galleries, 'American Abstract Artists', New York NY
Julien Levy Gallery, New York NY
Bibliography
Monographs
Smith, David, Cooke, Susan J. (ed.), 'David Smith. Collected Writings, Lectures, and Interviews', Oakland CA: University of California Press
Stevens, Peter, Delaney, Edith, ‘David Smith. Origins & Innovations’, New York: Hauser & Wirth Publishers
Schwarz, Dieter, Simona Cuiccio (eds.), ‘Von David Smith bis Richard Tuttle’, Winterthur: Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 2017
Turner, Elizabeth Hutton, Sarah Hamill, ‘Alexander Calder. David Smith’, Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2017 (exh. cat.)
Hergott, Fabrice, ‘David Smith, Drawings and Sculpture. Acting in Space’, Paris: Galerie Karsten Greve, 2015
Foster, Hal, ‘David Smith. The Forgings’, New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2013 (exh. cat.)
Stevens, Peter, ‘David Smith. Construction on Star Points, 1954-1956’, Zurich: Galerie Gmurzynska, 2013 (exh. cat.)
Eliel Carol S., Christopher Bedford + [et al.], ‘David Smith. Cubes and Anarchy’, Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011 (exh. cat.)
Frank, Susan Behrends, ‘David Smith Invents’, Washington DC: Phillips Collection, 2011 (exh. cat.)
Hamill, Sarah, ‘David Smith. Works, Writings, Interview’, Barcelona: Ediciones Poligrafa, 2011
Yvars, J. F. (ed.), ‘Julio González, David Smith. un diálogo sobre la escultura’, Valencia: IVAM, 2011 (exh. cat.)
Wingate, Ealan, Candida Smith, ‘David Smith. Sprays’, New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2008 (exh. cat.)
Dufrene, Thierry, ‘David Smith Sculptures 1933-1964’, Boulogne-Billancourt: Encyclopaedia Universalis, 2006 (exh. cat.)
Monod-Fontaine, Isabelle, Bénédicte Ajac (eds.), ‘David Smith. A Centennial’, Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2006 (exh. cat.)
Potts, Alex, ‘David Smith. Personage’, New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2006 (exh. cat.)
Nash, Steven, Candida Smith, ‘David Smith. Drawing and Sculpting’, Dallas: Nasher Sculpture Center, 2005 (exh. cat.)
Kirili, Alain, ‘David Smith. Dibujante. Entre Eros y Tánatos / David Smith. Draughtsman. Between Eros and Thanatos’, Valencia: IVAM, 2004 (exh. cat.)
Wilkin, Karen, ‘David Smith. Two into Three Dimensions’, Miami: Grassfield Press, 2000 (exh. cat.)
Smith, Candida N., Irving Sandler + [et al.], ‘The Fields of David Smith’, London: Thames & Hudson, 1999 (exh. cat.)
Krauss, Rosalind E., Joan Machner, ‘David Smith. Photographs 1931-1965’, New York: Matthew Marks Gallery; San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 1998 (exh. cat.)
Rubin, William, ‘Painted Steel. The Late Work of David Smith’, New York: Gagosian Gallery, 1998 (exh. cat.)
___,‘The Fields of David Smith (Part II)’, Mountainville: Storm King Art Center, 1998 (exh. brochure)
___, ‘David Smith. To and From the Figure’, New York: Knoedler & Company, 1995 (exh. cat.)
Mulas, Ugo, Candida Smith, ‘David Smith in Italy’, Milan: Edizione Charta, 1995 (exh. cat.)
Tuchman, Phyllis, ‘David Smith, Works on Paper (Arbeiten auf Papier) 1953-1961’, New York: Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, 1991 (exh. cat.)
Palmer, Maudie, ‘David Smith. Drawings and Sculpture’, Bulleen: Heide Park and Art Gallery, 1990 (exh. cat.)
Freas, Jean, ‘David Smith, Drawings of the Fifties’, London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1988 (exh. cat.)
Merkert, Jörn (ed.), Hannelore Kersting, Rachel Kirby, ‘David Smith. Sculpture and Drawings’, Munich: Prestel, 1986 (exh. cat.)
Wilkin, Karen, ‘David Smith’, New York: Abbeville Press, 1984
___, ‘David Smith. Spray Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture’, Chicago: Arts Club of Chicago, 1983 (exh. cat.)
Marcus, Stanley E., ‘David Smith. The Sculptor and His Work’, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983
Marter, Joan M., Judith McCandless, ‘Dorothy Dehner and David Smith. Their Decades of Search and Fulfillment’, New Brunswick: Janes Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 1983 (exh. cat.)
Carmean, Jr., E.A., ‘David Smith. Seven Major Themes’, Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982 (exh. cat.)
___, ‘From the Life of the Artist. A Documentary View of David Smith’, Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982 (exh. cat.)
Fry, Edward F., Miranda McClintic, ‘David Smith. Painter, Sculptor, Draftsman’, Washington DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 1982 (exh. cat.)
Mulas, Ugo, ‘Ugo Mulas. David Smith Working in Italy’, Rome: American Academy in Rome, 1982 (exh. cat.)
___, ‘David Smith, Robert Motherwell’, Caracas: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, 1979 (exh. cat.)
Krauss, Rosalind, ‘The Sculpture of David Smith. A Catalogue Raisonné’, New York: Garland Publishing, 1977 (cat. rais.)
___, ‘David Smith. Paintings’, New York: Knoedler Contemporary Art, 1976 (exh. cat.)
McCoy, Garnett, ‘David Smith’, New York: Praeger, 1973 (exh. cat.)
Gray, Cleve (ed.), ‘David Smith by David Smith. Sculpture and Writings’, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968 (exh. cat.)
O’Hara, Frank, William Berkson, ‘David Smith 1906-1965’, London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1966
Rasmussen, Waldo, Frank O'Hara, William Berkson, ‘David Smith 1906-1965’, Otterlo: Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, 1966 (exh. cat.)
Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold, ‘The Sculpture of David Smith’, New York: Buchholz Gallery, 1946 (exh. cat.)
Publications
Dander, Patrizia (ed.), 'Future Bodies from a Recent Past—Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s', Munich: Museum Brandhorst, 2022, pp. 26, 233, ill. (exh. cat.)
Aquin, Stéphane, Reeve, Anne, Guttman, Sandy, 'Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The Collection', New York: DelMonico Books, in association with Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2022, p. 137-139, ill.
Elderfield, John, Flam, Jack, Storr, Robert, 'Frisson: The Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis Collection', Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2021, pp. 144-151, ill. (exh. cat.)
de Chassey, Éric (ed.), 'Le surréalisme dans l'art américain', Marseille: RMN Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2021, pp. 94, 96, ill. (exh. cat.)
Jäger, Joachim, Martin, Constanze von + [et al.], ‘Die Ausstellungen. Neue Nationalgalerie 1968-2015’, Berlin: Nationalgalerie/Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2018 (exh. cat.)
Katz, Alex, ‘Looking at Art with Alex Katz’, New York: Laurence King Publishing, 2018
Miller, Mara, Parker, Thomas B. + [et al.], ‘The Masters. Art Students League and their Students’, New York: Hirschl & Adler, 2018 (exh. cat.)
Ward, Lucinda (ed.), ‘American Masters’, Parkes: National Gallery of Australia, 2018 (exh. cat.)
Schwarz, Dieter, Simona Cuiccio (eds.), ‘Von David Smith bis Richard Tuttle’, Winterthur: Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 2017
Turner, Elizabeth Hutton, Sarah Hamill, ‘Alexander Calder. David Smith’, Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2017 (exh. cat.)
White, Michelle, ‘David Smith. Form in Color’, Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers; Cologne: Snoeck, 2016 (exh. cat.)
Wagner, Anne Middleton, ‘A House Divided. American Art since 1955’, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012, p. 112, ill. (exh. cat.)
Peabody, Rebecca (ed.), ‘Anglo-American Exchange in Postwar Sculpture’, Los Angeles: Getty Museum, 2011, pp. 91-104; p. 100, ill.
___, ‘Toward a New American Cubism’, New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, 2006, pp. 46, 77, 78, ill. (exh. cat.)
1981
Krauss, Rosalind E., ‘Passages in Modern Sculpture’, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1981, ill.
___, ‘Tracking the Marvelous’, New York: New York University, 1981, p. 49, ill. (exh. cat.)
___, ‘Tracking the Marvelous’, New York: New York University, 1981, p. 49, ill. (exh. cat.)
Selected Press
___, 'Hauser & Wirth Zurich presents David Smith's exhibition "Four Sculptures"', on: artdaily.com, 18 January 2023, ill.
___, 'Hauser & Wirth Zurich: "David Smith: Four Sculptures"', on: moralmoda.com, December 2022, ill.
Wilkin, Karen, 'In the Mind of a Sculptor' [review], in: The Wall Street Journal, New York, 1 June 2021, ill.
Goodman, Jonathan, 'David Smith: Follow My Path' [review], in: The Brooklyn Rail, New York, May 2021, ill.
Kamp, Justin, 'Galleries and Fairs Are Turning to Virtual Reality to Connect with Collectors', on: artsy.net, 29 July 2020, ill.
Brandon, Elissaveta M., 'Are Sculpture Parks Having a Moment in the Sun?', on: smithsonianmag.com, 17 July 2020
Kianovsky, Sarah, 'Art Talk. Doorway on Wheels and David Smith’s Sculptural Practice', on: harvardatmuseums.org, 16 June 2020, vid.
Selvin, Claire, ‘“It Will Explode with Color”. David Smith Sculpture Survey Comes to England’, on: www.artnews.com, New York, 6 June 2019, ill.
Trigg, David, ‘David Smith: Field Work’, on: www.studiointernational.com, New York NY, 13 November 2019, ill. Vernon, Jonathan, ‘David Smith: Field Work' and 'David Smith: Sculpture 1932-1965', in: The Burlington Magazine, London, December Issue 2019, pp. 1055-1057, ill.
Sandomir, Richard, ‘H. Peter Stern, 90, Co-Founder of Storm King Art Center, Dies’, in: The New York Times, New York, vol. CLXIII, no. 58,150, 15 November 2018, p. A26, ill.
Lyon, Christopher, 'Artist Interviews and the Literature of Self-Endorsement', on: hyperallergic.com, New York, 14 January 2018
___, 'With New Partners and Expanded Purview, Master Drawings New York Returns to the Upper East Side in January', on: www.artfixdaily.com, New York, 8 January 2018
Mann, Jon, 'How Pollock and the Abstract Expressionists Created a New Visual Language', on: www.artsy.net, New York, 2 January 2018
MacAlister, Katherine, ‘Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum shares artistic impressions of life in wartime’, on: www.oxfordtimes.co.uk, Oxford, 6 October 2017
O’Kelly, Emma, ‘Frieze London 2017: galleries take a calmer and more considered stand’, on: www.wallpaper.com, London, 6 October 2017
Fulleylove, Rebecca, ‘Frieze Art Fair 2017: Feminist art, bronze sculptures and mop heads’, on: www.itsnicethat.com, London, 5 October 2017
Loos, Ted, ‘Attracting new blood and pushing boundaries’, in: The International New York Times, London, 5 October 2017, p. S1
Buck, Louisa, ‘Six things not to miss at Frieze London’, on: www.telegraph.co.uk, London, 3 October 2017
Moore, Susan, ‘London’s major modern and contemporary sales’, on: www.apollo-magazine.com, London, 2 October 2017
Gerlis, Melanie, ‘Adventurous art collection of Jerome and Ellen Stern comes to Sotheby’s’, on: theartnewspaper.com, London, 20 September 2017
Spero, Josh, ‘Frieze! You Have Been Sucked into An Art Hole’, in: Tatler, London, October 2017, p. 116
___, ‘Calder / Smith @ Hauser & Wirth’, on: 2-times.com, Melbourne, 1 September 2017
Roux, Caroline, ‘Defying gravity: Alexander Calder and David Smith at Hauser & Wirth Zurich’, on: www.telegraph.co.uk, London, 15 August 2017
___, ‘‘David Smith: The White Sculptures’ at Storm King Art Center, New York’, on: www.blouinartinfo.com, New York, 31 July 2017
Voon, Claire, ‘Humans Prefer Computer-Generated Paintings to Those at Art Basel’, on: hyperallergic.com, New York, 31 July 2017
Heinrich, Will, ‘White Bounty, Harvested From a ‘Sculpture Farm’’, in: The New York Times, New York, 30 June 2017, pp. 18-19
Spence, Rachel, ‘Wild swimming and well-mannered art’, in: The Financial Times, London, 14 June 2017, n. p.
___, ‘Alexander Calder and David Smith at Hauser & Wirth, Zurich’, on: moussemagazine.it, Milan, 12 June 2017
Freeman, Nate, ‘Swiss Movement: Before Art Basel, a Spin Through Zurich Gallery Weekend’, on: www.artnews.com, New York, 12 June 2017
___, ‘Beyond the fair: What to see in Zurich and Basel’, in: The Financial Times Weekend, London, 10-11 June 2017, p. 10
___, ‘What to see in Basel and at Zurich Art Weekend 2017’, on: www.ft.com, New York, 9 June 2017
Cain, Abigail, ‘Why Clement Greenberg Defaced David Smith’s Sculptures’, on: www.artsy.net, New York, 7 June 2017
Wilkin, Karen, ‘‘David Smith: The White Sculptures’ Review: Colored by Their Surroundings’, on: www.wsj.com, New York, 13 May 2017
___, ‘Hauser & Wirth Opens ‘Nothing and Everything: Seven Artists, 1947-1962’’, on: artdaily.com, Mexico City, 7 February 2017
Guiducci, Mark, ‘5 Cultural Things to do in New York City this Weekend’, on: www.vogue.com, New York, 4 February 2017 Kracher, Eva,’ Spater Start’, in: Der Tagesspiegal, Berlin, 28 January 2017, p. 28
Cotter, Holland, ‘Modernist Delicacy. David Smith at 100’, in: The New York Times, New York, 3 February 2006, p. E35
Fried, Michael, ‘David Smith’, in: Artforum, vol. 44, no. 10, New York, 2006, p. 342
Wilkin, Karen, ‘David Smith: A Sculptor Draws’, in: ‘American Drawing in the Mid-Twentiweth Century’, Master Drawings, vol. 40, no. 1, Spring 2002, pp. 43-56, ill.
Norklun, Kathi, ‘David Smith at Storm King Art Center’, in: Sculpture, vol. 17, no. 10, Washington DC, 1998, p. 66
Wilkin, Karen, ‘David Smith. The Sculptor and His Drawings’, in: New Criterion, vol. 8, New York, 1990, p. 16
Krauss, Rosalind E., ‘Changing the Work of David Smith’, in: Art Journal, vol. 43, no. 1, New York, 1983, pp. 93 – 95
Storr, Robert, ‘David Smith. Heroic or Protean?’, in: Art in America, vol. 71, no. 9, New York, 1983, pp. 151 – 152
Glueck, Grace, ‘David Smith Seen in His Full Range and Scope’, in: The New York Times, New York, 28 November 1982, p. H29
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