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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1994.17
People
David Smith, American (Decatur, IN 1906 - 1965 Bennington, VT)
Title
Terpsichore and Euterpe
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1947
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232568

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Technique
Cast
Dimensions
82.5 x 114.3 x 31.7 cm (32 1/2 x 45 x 12 1/2 in.)

Provenance

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

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Krauss 214

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
1994.17
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Clement Greenberg, "Art", The Nation (1947), vol. 164, p. 460, p. 460
  • Ben Wolf, "David Smith Displays Mechanized Sculpture", Art Digest (1947), vol. 21, p. 18, p. 18
  • Maude Riley, "David Smith", MKR's Art Outlook (1947)
  • Walter Merkel, "Sculptor in Metals Shows Work Here", Worcester Daily Telegram (Worcester, MA, 1947), n.p.
  • Jane Harrison Cone, David Smith 1906-1965: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., Thomas Todd Co. (Cambridge, MA, 1966), p. 70, no. 160
  • 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. 214
  • Mary Sherman, "Smith Exhibition: A Blockbuster Antidote", The Boston Globe (Boston, 1990), p. 66, p. 66
  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 207, fig. 94, pp.246-247, 348
  • James Panero, "Exhibition Notes: Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art", New Criterion (2003), vol. 21, no. 6, p. 50
  • Grace Glueck, "Lois Orswell, David Smith and Friends", The New York Times (New York, 2003), p. E48, ill.
  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Friends: Works from the Lois Orswell Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., Knoedler & Co. Inc. (New York, 2003), p48
  • Gary Tinterow, Lisa M. Messinger, and Nan Rosenthal, ed., Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2007), p. 110
  • Jennifer Field, Songs of the Horizon: David Smith, Music, and Dance, Hyde Collection (Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 2023), pg. 61, ill. color

Exhibition History

  • David Smith: Sculpture, 1946-1947, Marian Willard Gallery, 04/01/1947 - 04/26/1947
  • David Smith Collection, Higgins Armory Museum, 06/13/1947 - 10/26/1947
  • 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: 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
  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Friends: Works from the Lois Orswell Collection, Harvard University, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 11/14/2003 - 01/24/2004
  • The Art of American Dance, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 03/20/2016 - 06/12/2016; Denver Art Museum, Denver, 07/10/2016 - 10/02/2016; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, 10/22/2016 - 01/16/2017
  • David Smith: Follow My Path, Hauser & Wirth New York, New York, 04/27/2021 - 07/30/2021
  • Songs of the Horizon: David Smith, Music, and Dance, Hyde Collection, 06/24/2023 - 09/17/2023

Verification Level

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