David Smith

American sculptor

Also known as: David Roland Smith

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In full:: David Roland Smith

Born:: March 9, 1906, Decatur, Indiana, U.S.

Died:: May 23, 1965, Albany, New York (aged 59)

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David Smith (born March 9, 1906, Decatur, Indiana, U.S.—died May 23, 1965, Albany, New York) was an American sculptor whose pioneering welded metal sculpture and massive painted geometric forms made him the most original American sculptor in the decades after World War II. His work greatly influenced the brightly coloured “primary structures” of Minimal art during the 1960s. Smith was never trained as a sculptor, but he learned to work with metal in 1925, when he was briefly employed as a riveter at the Studebaker automobile plant in South Bend, Indiana. Dropping out of college after his first year, he ...(100 of 503 words)

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