DAVID SMITH | DESERTED GARDEN LANDSCAPE

Estate of the artist

Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York 

Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1969

Washington, D.C., American Association of University Women (organizer); and travelling to Dallas, AAUW National Convention; Indiana, Gary Public Library; Indiana, Fort Wayne Civic Theatre; Worcester, Massachusetts, John Woodman Higgins Armory; Terre Haute, Indiana State Teachers College; Ada, Oklahoma, East Central State College and Public Library; Logan, Utah, City Library; Utah, Provo Public Library; Youngstown, Ohio, Butler Institute of Art; Chicago, Roosevelt College; East Lansing, Michigan State College; Junior Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky; Iowa, Grinnell College; and Auburn, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, David Smith, April 1946 – January 1952

New York, Willard Gallery, David Smith: Sculpture, 1946-1947, April 1947, no. 8 

New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, David Smith: Small Sculptures of the Mid-Forties, May - June 1968, p. 7, illustrated 

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970, October 1969 - February 1970, p. 303, illustrated 

Santa Barbara, Art Galleries, University of California, Nineteen Sculptors of the 40s, April - May 1973, p. 21, no. 88 (text), and p. 77, illustrated

San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, Twentieth Century Sculpture, June - August 1978

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, October 2000 - January 2001, p. 66, pl. 6, illustrated in color, p. 259 (text), and p. 387, no. 276 (text)

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou; and London, Tate Modern, David Smith: A Centennial, February 2006 - January 2007, p. 134, no. 40, illustrated in color, and p. 299 (text) (New York only) 

Clement Greenberg, “Art,” Nation, April 1947, pp. 459-460 

David Smith, “I Never Looked at a Landscape—Sculpture Is,” Possibilities I, Winter 1947-48, p. 24, illustrated 

Exh. Cat, Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (and travelling), David Smith, 1906-1965: A Retrospective Exhibition, September 1966 - February 1967, p. 70, no. 150 (text) 

Jerrold Lanes, “Small Sculptures by David Smith at the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery,” Burlington Magazine 110, July 1968, p. 423 

Patricia Railing, “La sculpture américaine de 1940 à 1959," XXe siècle, June 1973, pp. 156-57, no. 40 

Rosalind E. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York and London 1977, p. 39, no. 201 (text), and p. 148, fig. 201, illustrated

Ann Eden Gibson, Issues in Abstract Expressionism: The Artist Run Periodicals, New Haven 1990, no. 42, illustrated

Aurélie Barnier, "Une Revue de l'expressionisme abstrait américan: Possibilities (1947-1948)," Les Cahiers du Mnam, No. 71, Spring 2000, p. 112, illustrated

Adelheid M. Gealt, Masterworks from the Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington 2007, p. 38, illustrated