David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy

Exhibition works

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  David Smith, 17 h’s, 1950. Painted steel, 44 1/2 × 29 × 12 1/2 inches (113 × 73.7 × 31.8 cm). The Estate of David Smith. © The Estate of David Smith/VAGA, New York. Photograph by David Heald; courtesy The Estate of David Smith

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  David Smith (1906–1965), Tanktotem IX, 1960. Painted steel, 90 × 33 × 24 1/8 inches (214.6 × 94 × 35.9 cm). Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York, gift of the Ralph E. Ogden Foundation, Inc. © The Estate of David Smith/VAGA, New York. Photograph by David Heald; courtesy The Estate of David Smith

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  David Smith, Lectern Sentinel, 1961. Stainless steel, 101 3/4 × 33 × 20 1/2 inches (258.5 × 83.8 × 52.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art 62.15. © The Estate of David Smith/VAGA, New York

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  David Smith, Blue Construction, 1938. Sheet steel with baked-enamel finish, 36 1/4 x 28 1/2 x 30 in. (92.1 x 72.4 x 76.2 cm). The Estate of David Smith; courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. © The Estate of David Smith/Licensed by VAGA, New York. Photograph courtesy The Estate of David Smith

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  David Smith, Cubi I, 1963. Stainless steel, 124 × 34 1/2 × 33 1/2 in. (315 × 87.6 × 85.1 cm). Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Special Purchase Fund. © The Estate of David Smith/Licensed by VAGA, New York. Photograph © Detroit Institute of Arts/licensed by The Bridgeman Art Library

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  David Smith, The Hero, 1951–1952. Painted steel, 73 3/4 × 25 1/2 × 11 3/4 in. (187.2 × 64.8 × 29.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund. © The Estate of David Smith/VAGA, New York. Photograph courtesy Brooklyn Museum of Art