But formal considerations are also important. David Smith worked in welded steel to produce what he called “drawings in space.” In Hudson River Landscape, he transformed steel agricultural tool fragments and foundry castoffs into a semi-figurative sculpture. Welded steel (1906-1965) Gift of William Rubin, MOMA
The incorporation date of this company is on 20th June 1967 and its headquarters can be found at NONE. When he came across Picasso and Julio Gonzalez’s welded iron works, Smith realised this was an industrial skill he too could bring into his artwork (Like Smith, Gonzalez had been trained to weld in a car plant). DAVID SMITH STEEL CO., INC. is a business legal entity registered in compliance with the national legislation of the State of Connecticut under the legal form of Stock.
Smith capitalized on steel’s tensile strength and his own welding virtuosity to construct new sculptural forms that balanced mass and weightlessness. Flick through the gallery above to get a picture of the 80 works included in Abstract expressionist sculptor's retrospective makes its way across America Sept 28, 2015–Apr 4, 2016
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Smith was the great-grandson of a blacksmith, and of his childhood, the artist recalls, "we used to play on trains and around factories. David Smith worked in welded steel to produce what he called “drawings in space.” In Hudson River Landscape, he transformed steel agricultural tool fragments and foundry castoffs into a semi-figurative sculpture. June 28–Oct 28, 2012 Widely considered one of the greatest American sculptors of the 20th century, David Smith (1906-1965) conceived himself to be not only an artist, but "a labourer of the modern-age".This idea of Smith as working class artist-labourer is reflected in photographs of him (above) at his studio in among the welding tools, hacksaws, tyres and metal sheets that became the tools of his craft. Following a hugely successful debut at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in spring 2011, his retrospective show Often thought of as a 3D counterpart to abstract expressionist painters like Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell (with whom he was friends), it was steel, rather than paint that became the vehicle for Smith's expressions.The sculptor began working with metal when he spent a summer while at Art College working at a car assembly plant and then later (in the 1940s) when he supplemented his measly artist’s salary with welding work. David Smith exhibit at the Guggenheim. As its title indicates, this work is a landscape, one that, in the artist’s words, “came in part from dozens of drawings made on a train between Albany and Poughkeepsie, a synthesis of ten trips over a 75 mile stretch.” The sculpture includes abstracted, but recognizable forms evoking clouds, railroad tracks, and stepped terrain; the spring-thawed, ice-laden Hudson River is airily frozen in steel. David Smith was born in Decatur, Indiana, in 1906 and moved with his family to Paulding, Ohio, in 1921. 13 / 14 David Smith, Steel Drawing I (1945) 14 / 14 David Smith, Cubi I (1963) Widely considered one of the greatest American sculptors of the 20th century, David Smith (1906-1965) conceived himself to be not only an artist, but "a labourer of the modern-age". Sadly, Smith's career was cut short by a fatal car crash at the age of 59, but his sculptures which marry together his interest in geometric shapes and social and political concerns, have more than stood the test of time. While Hudson River Landscape’s outlined, rectangular format recalls Smith’s training as a Cubist painter, the sculpture’s almost calligraphic line moves swiftly in space with a sense of animation and energy akin to the gestural paintings of Smith’s Abstract Expressionist colleagues. Feb 19–May 3, 2009 Smith also had a strong interest in the hard-edged geometry and ideas of constructivism. Find more prominent pieces of sculpture at Wikiart.org – best visual art database. Sept 28, 2006–Jan 28, 2007 May 1–Sept 27, 2015 ‘Steel Drawing I’ was created in 1945 by David Smith in Abstract Expressionism style.
Company is located in the register under the national Company number 12879. Smith's mother was a schoolteacher, while the artist's father managed a telephone company and was an amateur inventor.