Tuesday, February 14, 2012

David Smith






Probably the first American sculptor to weld, Smith considered his work more closely related to painting. Smith made sculptures of subjects that had never before been shown in three dimensional forms, such as Hudson River Landscape 1951, or in honor of his children, Rebecca Circle 1961 and Hi Candida 1965. Unlike traditional metal sculpture made from castings which could be duplicated, Smith assembled his pieces from scratch, each one different.