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David Smith (1906-1965)
Family Totem
Details
David Smith (1906-1965)
Family Totem
incised with signature, number and date 'David Smith 1951G2' on the base
steel, painted brown and rose
32 x 22 x 6in. (81.3 x 55.9 x 15.2cm.)
Family Totem
incised with signature, number and date 'David Smith 1951G2' on the base
steel, painted brown and rose
32 x 22 x 6in. (81.3 x 55.9 x 15.2cm.)
Provenance
Willard Gallery, New York.
James and Dorothy Schramm, Burlington.
James and Dorothy Schramm, Burlington.
Literature
R. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 1977, p. 51, no. 252 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Willard Gallery, David Smith: Sculpture and Drawings, Apr. 1952, no. 18 (illustrated).
Lincoln, University of Nebraska, University Galleries, Nebraska Art Association--Sixty-Third Annual Exhibition, Mar. 1953.
Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Haifa, Living American Artists, Aug.-Dec. 1959, organized by the American Federation of Arts, Project Elai.
Amherst College, Mead Art Museum, and Des Moines Art Center, Art of the Twentieth Century Collected by James F. and Dorothy Schramm, Oct. 1961-Feb. 1962 (illustrated).
Lincoln, University of Nebraska, University Galleries, Nebraska Art Association--Sixty-Third Annual Exhibition, Mar. 1953.
Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Haifa, Living American Artists, Aug.-Dec. 1959, organized by the American Federation of Arts, Project Elai.
Amherst College, Mead Art Museum, and Des Moines Art Center, Art of the Twentieth Century Collected by James F. and Dorothy Schramm, Oct. 1961-Feb. 1962 (illustrated).
Further details
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