1994.19: 5 1/2

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1994.19

People

David Smith, American (Decatur, IN 1906 - 1965 Bennington, VT)

Title

5 1/2

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture

Date

1956

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/232341

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Steel with paint

Dimensions

207.6 x 46.3 x 35.6 cm (81 3/4 x 18 1/4 x 14 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: On base: David Smith, Signed Date: 12.2.1956

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

David Smith, sold; to Lois Orswell, 1959, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1994.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Krauss 367

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

1994.19

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• David Smith, "Notes on My Work" (Arts, 1960), vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 46-47, ill.
• Hilton Kramer, "The Sculpture of David Smith", Arts (1960), vol. 34, no. 5, p. 39, Cover, ill.
• David Smith: Sculpture and Drawings, exh. cat., Everett Ellin Gallery (Los Angeles, 1960), n.p., ill.
• Hilton Kramer, "Lachaise and Others: The Orswell Collection", Arts Yearbook (1961), vol. 4, p. 89, ill. (color)
• Jane Harrison Cone, David Smith 1906-1965: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., Thomas Todd Co. (Cambridge, MA, 1966), p. 77, no. 373
• C. R. Wasserman, "Fogg Presents Smith Sculpture", The Boston Globe (Boston, 1972), p. 18, p. 18
• Rosalind E. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith, a Catalogue Raisonné, Garland Publishing, Inc. (New York, NY, 1977), cat. no. 367
• "Grand Contructions: Fogg Exhibition Shows David Smith in Three Media", Fogg Art Museum Newsletter, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), vol. 17, no. 1, p. 3, ill.
• Edward F. Fry and Miranda McClintic, David Smith: Painter, Sculptor, Draftsman, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and George Braziller (New York and Washington D.C., 1982), pp. 15-16
• Miles Unger, "David Smith at Harvard", Art New England (1995), vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 16-17, ill.
• Frank A. Pasquale, "David Smith's Abstract Identity", The Harvard Crimson (Cambridge, MA, 1995)
• Christine Temin, "Sculpture that won't let you stand still", The Boston Globe (Boston, 1995), p. 49, ill.
• Sarah Kianovsky, David Smith: This Work is My Identity, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1995), reproduced in b/w p. 5
• Ann Wilson Lloyd, "Museums and Galleries: David Smith at the Fogg Art Museum", Sculpture (1996), vol. 15, no. 1, p. 79, p. 79, ill.
• Christine Temin, "A Collector Who 'Bought with Her Guts and Her Heart'", The Boston Globe (Boston, 2002), n.p.
• Andrew Graham-Dixon, "Smith at His Forge", Seven (2002), pp. 30-31, pp. 30-31, ill. (color)
• Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 210, fig. 72, pp. 156-158
• Richard Mulholland, "Of Dreams and Visions and Things Not Known: Looking at David Smith's Drawing Media" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2003), Unpublished, pp. 1-43 passim
• Andrew Lambirth, "Forging Ahead", Spectator (London, 2006), n.p.
• David Smith, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou (Paris, 2006), pp. 174-175, 316, cat. 33
• Carol Eliel, Anne Wagner, and Christopher Bedford, David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA, 2011), pp. 147-148, ill.
• Eduardo Chillida: Sotheby's at Isleworth, A Private Sale Offering, auct. cat., Sotheby's at Iseworth (2011), pp. 23, 114-115, ill.
• Joan Pachner, David Smith, Phaidon Press (London, 2013), p. 88, fig. 73, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

• David Smith: 23 Related Sculptures, Drawings, Paintings, Fogg Art Museum, 01/01/1972 - 02/29/1972
• Terminal Iron Works: The Sculpture of David Smith, Fogg Art Museum, 07/05/1972 - 09/15/1972
• David Smith: Sculpture, Drawings, and Paintings, Fogg Art Museum, 10/01/1979 - 11/25/1979
• David Smith: Five Sculptures in the Courtyard, Fogg Art Museum, 07/22/1981 - 09/20/1981
• David Smith: Sculptures and Drawings 1906-1965, Fogg Art Museum, 06/09/1990 - 08/05/1990
• David Smith: "This work is my identity", Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/03/1995 - 05/05/1996
• Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
• David Smith: A Centennial, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 01/26/2006 - 05/14/2006; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 06/14/2006 - 08/21/2006; Tate Modern, London, 11/01/2006 - 01/21/2007
• David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 04/03/2011 - 07/24/2011; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 10/06/2011 - 01/08/2012; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, 01/27/2012 - 04/15/2012

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