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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1994.22
People
David Smith, American (Decatur, IN 1906 - 1965 Bennington, VT)
Title
Untitled
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1961-1962
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232253

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Technique
Cast
Dimensions
53.3 x 36.8 x 33 cm (21 x 14 1/2 x 13 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: On base: David Smith , Signed Date: 1961-62
  • inscription: On base: July [?] 1961-62

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
David Smith, sold; to Lois Orswell, 1963, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1994.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Krauss 542

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
Copyright
© The Estate of David Smith / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Accession Year
1994
Object Number
1994.22
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Rosalind E. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith, a Catalogue Raisonné, Garland Publishing, Inc. (New York, NY, 1977), cat. no. 542
  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 218, p. 348, p. 351 as fig. 169, p. 379
  • Dan Budnik, Seeing David Smith: Photographs by Dan Budnik, M. Knoedler & Co. (New York, 2006), n.p., ill.

Exhibition History

  • David Smith: 23 Related Sculptures, Drawings, Paintings, Fogg Art Museum, 01/01/1972 - 02/29/1972
  • David Smith: Sculpture, Drawings, and Paintings, Fogg Art Museum, 10/01/1979 - 11/25/1979
  • David Smith: Sculptures and Drawings 1906-1965, Fogg Art Museum, 06/09/1990 - 08/05/1990
  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003

Verification Level

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