Great video; this is one of the very best presentations on David Smith I've seen (and I've seen quite a few). I will come back and watch Part 1 at some point. When I was a kid, my best friend's father was a good friend of David Smith. As a young teenager I was fortunate enough to go with my friend to visit David Smith's farmhouse/studio in Bolton Landing, in upstate New York. David Smith had passed away a few years before in an automobile crash, but I think his widow still lived there and there were still dozens of his amazing sculptures spread out on the undulating fields of the property. I feel very lucky to have a pretty vivid memory of that day! By the way, I had never heard that story about Clement Greenberg stripping the white paint off of a Smith sculpture...Yikes! Whether or not the white paint was a primer coat or the intended final color is somewhat irrelevant, because it was clearly not intended to be unpainted.
this is wonderful, thank you for sharing with us, David Smith is a hero of mine.....Paul in Orlando Florida
Great video; this is one of the very best presentations on David Smith I've seen (and I've seen quite a few). I will come back and watch Part 1 at some point.
When I was a kid, my best friend's father was a good friend of David Smith. As a young teenager I was fortunate enough to go with my friend to visit David Smith's farmhouse/studio in Bolton Landing, in upstate New York. David Smith had passed away a few years before in an automobile crash, but I think his widow still lived there and there were still dozens of his amazing sculptures spread out on the undulating fields of the property. I feel very lucky to have a pretty vivid memory of that day!
By the way, I had never heard that story about Clement Greenberg stripping the white paint off of a Smith sculpture...Yikes! Whether or not the white paint was a primer coat or the intended final color is somewhat irrelevant, because it was clearly not intended to be unpainted.