Untitled

1957

David Smith

Associated Names
David Smith

Artist, American, 1906 - 1965

The image displays bold black brushstrokes on a white canvas, arranged in dynamic curves and angles. The strokes overlap and twist in various directions, with some sections appearing thicker.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    brush and black ink mixed with egg on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 68.9 × 101.76 cm (27 1/8 × 40 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.33

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Estate of the artist. (Knoedler Contemporary Art, New York); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased October 10, 1973; bequest to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2001

  • A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001, no. 95.

2014

  • Modern American Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014-2015

Bibliography

2001

  • A Century of Drawing. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 95.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: ΔΣ 1957

Wikidata ID

Q64540932

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