藝術家大卫·史密斯 (1906-1965) 生平簡歷

出生地： Decatur, IN

死亡地点： Albany, NY

地址： NYC and Brooklyn, NY, 1926-40; Bolton Landing, NY, 1940-on

职业： Sculptor, engraver

教育： Univ. Ohio; George Washington Univ.; ASL, with R. Lahey, J. Sloan, J. Matulka, 1926-32

展出： Marian Willard's East River Gal., NYC, 1938 (solo of his drawings and welded sculpture); BM; S. Indp. A.; Denver AM; WFNY, 1939; WMAA biennials, 1941-64; Buchholz Gal., 1946 (retrospective); Willard Gal., 1946; PAFA Ann., 1947, 1952-56; AIC, 1947; Walker Art Center, 1950; SFMA, 1954; MoMA, 1957 (retrospective); Venice Biennale, 1958 (solo show organized by MOMA); commissioned by Gian-Carlo Menotti and Italian Gov't to produce 26 sculptures fo exh. in Spoleto, Italy, 1962. Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, 1950-51, 1951-52.

会员： Am. Abstract Artists; United Am. Artists; Am. Artists Congress

工作： Detroit Inst. Art; WMAA; MoMA; CAM; Hirshhorn Mus.; BMFA; Dallas MA; Walker Art Center; Univ. Michigan; Indiana Univ.; AIC; Univ. Minnesota; Brandeis Univ.; CM; Carnegie Collection, Pittsburgh; Munson-Williams-Proctor Inst.

评论： One of the major 20th-century sculptors and the leading sculptor associated with Abstract Expressionism. Known for his welding of abstract forms in series such as Medals of Dishonor" (1937-40); "Agricola" (begun 1951); "Tank Totem" (begun 1953); "Zig" (begun 1960); "Voltri-Bolton" (begun 1962); and "Cubi" (begun 1963). His style grew out of European abstraction and Surrealism, but by the 1940s he had developed a personal symbolism, and after 1950 he focused more on formal concerns in the creation of his monumental pieces. Smith first learned medal handling techiques while working at the Studebaker automobile plant in South Bend, IN (1925). He made his first welded sculptures in the early 1930s and soon after established a sculpture studio in the Brooklyn Terminal Iron Works. During the 1940s and 1950s he had at least 35 solo shows in the U.S. and Europe, and participated in many group exhibitions. While still at the height of his career he was fatally injured in an accident, purportedly while driving drunk. He was married to artist Dorothy Dehner from 1927 to c.1951. Positions: visiting prof., Sarah Lawrence College; Univ. Arkansas; Univ. Indiana; Univ. Mississippi, etc.; Delegate to Int. Congress Plastic Arts, Venice, 1954; appointed by Pres. Lyndon Johnson to the National Council on the Arts, February, 1965.

来源： WW59; Two Hundred Years of American Sculpture, 310-11; Rosalind E. Krauss, Terminal Iron Works: The Sculpture of David Smith (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1971); Garnett McCoy, ed. David Smith (Praeger Publishers, 1973); Baigell, Dictionary; Falk, Exh. Record Series; death info courtesy Betty Krulick, Spanierman Gal., NYC"