DAVID SMITH 1906-1965 INK OIL PAINTING ON PAPER. David Smith (American, 1906-1965). Untitled, 1954. Black ink, salmon tempera and white oil on paper. Signed and dated (lower right).Image size 50.5cm by 38cm.

Provenance: private collection St. Louis, Missouri.

David Roland Smith (American, 1906â€â€œ1965) was an early Abstract Expressionist sculptor, who welded large steel abstract and geometric works. Born in Indiana, Smith grew up in Ohio and attended Ohio University and the University of Nortre Dame, but abandoned his studies to become an automobile welder in Indiana. In 1927, Smith moved to New York and joined Art Students League, where he was exposed to the works of European artists such as Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881â€â€œ1973), Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872â€â€œ1944), and Wassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866â€â€œ1944), and became friends with American Abstract Expressionist artists, including Willem de Kooning (American/Dutch, 1904â€â€œ1997) and Jackson Pollock (American, 1912â€â€œ1956). Influenced in particular by Spanish Cubists Picasso and Julio González (1876â€â€œ1942), Smith began to weld his own abstract works from steel and scrap metal, which merged the constructed influence of the Cubists with a Surrealist emphasis on psychology. In 1940, Smith and his wife moved to upstate New York, where he created the Terminal Iron Works studio, allowing him eventually to expand the size of his welded sculptures. During World War II, when resources were scarcer, Smith briefly shifted his focus to painting, but after the war he returned to his sculptural production. The artist received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship in 1950, which alleviated his financial situation and paved the way for larger works and more series, such as his famous Cubi, Tanktotem, and Voltri. His productivity and fame increased over the next decade and a half, as he held a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art and received a commission from the Italian government, but his life tragically ended in a car crash in 1965.

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