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David Smith (sculptor)

Index David Smith (sculptor)

Roland David Smith (March 9, 1906 – May 23, 1965) was an American abstract expressionist sculptor and painter, best known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures. [1]

74 relations: Abstract expressionism, Adolph Gottlieb, Agricola I, American Locomotive Company, Anthony Caro, Arshile Gorky, Art Students League of New York, Bennington, Vermont, Bolton Landing, New York, Brandeis University, Constructivism (art), Cubi, Decatur, Indiana, Dorothy Dehner, Enamel paint, Environmental sculpture, Everett Ellin, Federal Art Project, Festival dei Due Mondi, Gagosian Gallery, Geometry, George Washington University, Hans Hofmann, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Honolulu Museum of Art, Indiana, Indiana University, Jackson Pollock, Jan Matulka, John D. Graham, John French Sloan, Julio González (sculptor), Lake George (New York), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Times, Lyndon B. Johnson, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery, Modernism, Museum of Modern Art, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City, Ohio University, Pablo Picasso, Paulding, Ohio, Piet Mondrian, Roberta Smith, Sarah Lawrence College, São Paulo Art Biennial, Schenectady, New York, ..., Sculpture, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, South Shaftsbury, Vermont, Spoleto, Steel, Storm King Art Center, Stuart Davis (painter), Surrealism, The New York Times, The Phillips Collection, United States, University of Notre Dame, Upstate New York, Venice Biennale, Virgin Islands, Wassily Kandinsky, Welded sculpture, Wexner Center for the Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art, Willard Gallery, Willem de Kooning, Works Progress Administration, World War II. Expand index (24 more) »

Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s.

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Adolph Gottlieb

Adolph Gottlieb (March 14, 1903 – March 4, 1974) was an American abstract expressionist painter, sculptor and printmaker.

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Agricola I

Agricola I is an abstract sculpture by American artist David Smith.

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American Locomotive Company

The American Locomotive Company, often shortened to ALCO, ALCo or Alco, designed, built and sold steam locomotives, diesel-electric locomotives, diesel engines and generators, specialized forgings, high quality steel, armed tanks and automobiles and produced nuclear energy.

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Anthony Caro

Sir Anthony Alfred Caro (8 March 192423 October 2013) was an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'found' industrial objects. His style was of the modernist school, having worked with Henry Moore early in his career. He was lauded as the greatest British sculptor of his generation.

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Arshile Gorky

Arshile Gorky (born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան; April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-American painter, who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism.

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Art Students League of New York

The Art Students League of New York is an art school located on West 57th Street in Manhattan, New York City, New York.

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Bennington, Vermont

Bennington is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, in the United States.

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Bolton Landing, New York

Bolton Landing is a hamlet in the town of Bolton in Warren County, New York, United States.

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Brandeis University

Brandeis University is an American private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts, 9 miles (14 km) west of Boston.

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Constructivism (art)

Constructivism was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1913 by Vladimir Tatlin.

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Cubi

The Cubi series is a group of stainless steel sculptures built from cubes, rectangular solids and cylinders with spheroidal or flat endcaps.

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Decatur, Indiana

Decatur is a city in Root and Washington townships, Adams County, Indiana, United States.

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Dorothy Dehner

Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an American painter and sculptor.

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Enamel paint

Enamel paint is paint that air dries to a hard, usually glossy, finish, used for coating surfaces that are outdoors or otherwise subject to hard wear or variations in temperature; it should not be confused with decorated objects in "painted enamel", where vitreous enamel is applied with brushes and fired in a kiln.

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Environmental sculpture

Environmental sculpture is sculpture that creates or alters the environment for the viewer, as opposed to presenting itself figurally or monumentally before the viewer.

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Everett Ellin

Everett Bernard Ellin (1928–2011) was an American museum official, art dealer, engineer, lawyer, and talent agent.

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Federal Art Project

The Federal Art Project (1935–43) was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States.

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Festival dei Due Mondi

The Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the Two Worlds) is an annual summer music and opera festival held each June to early July in Spoleto, Italy, since its founding by composer Gian Carlo Menotti in 1958.

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Gagosian Gallery

Gagosian Gallery is a contemporary art gallery owned and directed by Larry Gagosian.

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Geometry

Geometry (from the γεωμετρία; geo- "earth", -metron "measurement") is a branch of mathematics concerned with questions of shape, size, relative position of figures, and the properties of space.

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George Washington University

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Hans Hofmann

Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American painter, renowned as an artist and teacher in a career that spanned two generations and two continents, and is considered to have both preceded and influenced Abstract Expressionism.

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum beside the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., the United States.

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Honolulu Museum of Art

The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaiokinai.

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Indiana

Indiana is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America.

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Indiana University

Indiana University (IU) is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States.

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Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement.

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Jan Matulka

Jan Matulka (7 November 1890 – 25 June 1972) was a Czech-American modern artist originally from Bohemia.

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John D. Graham

John D. Graham (1886–1961) was a Russian Empire-born American Modernist / figurative painter.

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John French Sloan

John French Sloan (August 2, 1871 – September 7, 1951) was an American painter and etcher.

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Julio González (sculptor)

Julio González i Pellicer (21 September 1876 - 27 March 1942) was a Spanish sculptor and painter who developed the expressive use of iron as a medium for modern sculpture.

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Lake George (New York)

Lake George, nicknamed the Queen of American Lakes, is a long, narrow oligotrophic lake located at the southeast base of the Adirondack Mountains, in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of New York.

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after having served as the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963.

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Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko, born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz (Ма́ркус Я́ковлевич Ротко́вич, Markuss Rotkovičs; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970), was an American painter of Russian Jewish descent.

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Milton Avery

Milton Clark Avery (March 7, 1885 – January 3, 1965) was an American modern painter.

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Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Ohio University

Ohio University is a large, primarily residential public research university in Athens, Ohio, United States.

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France.

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Paulding, Ohio

Paulding is a village in and the county seat of Paulding County, Ohio, United States located SW of Toledo.

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Piet Mondrian

Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian (later; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.

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Roberta Smith

Roberta Smith (born 1947) is co-chief art critic of The New York Times and a lecturer on contemporary art.

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Sarah Lawrence College

Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in the United States.

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São Paulo Art Biennial

The São Paulo Art Biennial (Bienal in Portuguese) was founded in 1951 and has been held every two years since.

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Schenectady, New York

Schenectady is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat.

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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1937 by philanthropist Solomon R. Guggenheim and his long-time art advisor, artist Hilla von Rebay.

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum located at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

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South Shaftsbury, Vermont

South Shaftsbury is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Shaftsbury in Bennington County, Vermont, United States.

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Spoleto

Spoleto (Latin Spoletium) is an ancient city in the Italian province of Perugia in east-central Umbria on a foothill of the Apennines.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements.

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Storm King Art Center

Storm King Art Center, commonly referred to as Storm King and named after its proximity to Storm King Mountain, is an open-air museum located in Mountainville, New York.

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Stuart Davis (painter)

Stuart Davis (December 7, 1892 – June 24, 1964), was an early American modernist painter.

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Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Phillips Collection

The Phillips Collection is an art museum founded by Duncan Phillips and Marjorie Acker Phillips in 1921 as the Phillips Memorial Gallery located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Phillips was the grandson of James H. Laughlin, a banker and co-founder of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame du Lac (or simply Notre Dame or ND) is a private, non-profit Catholic research university in the community of Notre Dame, Indiana, near the city of South Bend, in the United States.

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Upstate New York

Upstate New York is the portion of the American state of New York lying north of the New York metropolitan area.

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Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia; in English also called the "Venice Biennial") refers to an arts organization based in Venice and the name of the original and principal biennial exhibition the organization organizes.

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Virgin Islands

The Virgin Islands are the western island group of the Leeward Islands, which are the northern part of the Lesser Antilles, and form the border between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.

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Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky) (– 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist.

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Welded sculpture

Welded sculpture (related to visual art and works of art) is an art form in which sculpture is made using welding techniques.

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Wexner Center for the Arts

The Wexner Center for the Arts is The Ohio State University’s "multidisciplinary, international laboratory for the exploration and advancement of contemporary art".

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Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum of American Art – known informally as the "Whitney" – is an art museum located in Manhattan.

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Willard Gallery

The Willard Gallery was a contemporary art gallery operating in New York City from 1940 until 1987.

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Willem de Kooning

Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch abstract expressionist artist.

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Works Progress Administration

The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Smith_(sculptor)

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