David Smith: A Centennial
A Note to Teachers
David Smith: A Centennial, on view February 3–May 14, 2006, is the first
retrospective of the artist’s work in New York City since the Guggenheim’s 1969
exhibition. This landmark exhibition brings together important sculptures by
the artist, as well as drawings and notebooks compiled over his 40-year career,
revealing Smith’s singular achievements in postwar American abstraction. [more]
About the Artist
David Smith (1906–1965), who would become one of the most influential and innovative American sculptors of the twentieth century, was born in Decatur, Indiana, in 1906. His mother was a schoolteacher and devout Methodist; his father was a telephone engineer and part-time inventor, who fostered in his son a reverence for machinery.
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