David Smith
Arc-Wing
1945
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David Smith
Arc-Wing
1945
Physical Qualities
Steel, 24 x 46 3/4 x 20 1/2 in. (61 x 118.7 x 52.1 cm)
Credit Line
Alan and Janet Wurtzburger Collection
Object Number
1966.55.29
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1966; Janal Foundation, Baltimore; Willard Gallery through Harold Diamond
Kleeman/Willard, 1952.
Museum of Modern Art, 1953 (circulating)
Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C., 1963.
"The Fields of David Smith," Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY, May 16-November 15, 1999.
Darsie Alexander, "Robert Motherwell: Meanings of Abstraction," The Baltimore Museum of Art, May 20, 2006 - July 30, 2006.
Oliver Shell, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Advancing Abstraction in Modern Sculpture," July - February 2011.
Museum of Modern Art, 1953 (circulating)
Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C., 1963.
"The Fields of David Smith," Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY, May 16-November 15, 1999.
Darsie Alexander, "Robert Motherwell: Meanings of Abstraction," The Baltimore Museum of Art, May 20, 2006 - July 30, 2006.
Oliver Shell, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Advancing Abstraction in Modern Sculpture," July - February 2011.
Carola Giedion-Welcker, "Plastik des XX." Jahrhunderts, 1955, p. 213, ill.
"The Wurtzburger Collection," "Baltimore Museum of Art News," 23:3 (Spring 1960), no. 19, ill. p. 22.
"Studies in Honor of Gertrude Rosenthal (Part 1), "Annual III," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1969, no. 14, p. 64, ill.
Rosalind E. Krauss, "The Sculpture of David Smith, A Catalogue Raisonne," NY and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1977, p. 49, no. 244.
John-Paul Stonard, "Abstraction in Sculpture," "The Burlington Magazine," November 2010, CLII, p. 769.
Ray, Charles. "Matisse and super clay: lecture n 2." "Charles Ray at the Menil Collection." Houston, TX: The Menil Collection, 2019.
Inscribed: On raised plaque: "David Smith 1951 G2"
