David Smith

Estate of the artist
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Dr. and Mrs. John Cook, New York (acquired from the above in 1969)
Sotheby Parke Bernet New York, 2 May 1972, lot 131
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dorsky, New York (acquired from the above sale)
Sotheby Parke Bernet, 12 May 1981, lot 23
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above sale)
Sotheby's New York, 2 May 1988, lot 8
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Emily Genauer, “Works of Young Sculptors Burst the Bonds of Space,” New York Herald Tribune, 6 August 1950, sec. 5, p. 5
Belle Krasne, “Three Who Carry the Acetylene Torch of Modernism,” Art Digest 25, no. 14, 15 April 1951, p. 14
Progressive Architecture, Vol.XXXI no. 10, October 1950, p. 17, illustrated
Justus Bier, "Art: Junior Gallery Exhibit Emphasizes Modern Sculpture Processes," Courier Journal (Louisville, Kentucky), 21 January 1951, p. 16
Arthur Millier, “Sculpture Changes with Trends, Times: Exhibit at County Museum Stresses Use of Moern Techniques in Art,” Los Angeles Times, 27 January 1952, part IV, p. 6
Joy Hakanson, “Seligmann, Smith at Museum; Gropper Solo Opens Monday,” Detroit Free Press, 20 February 1955, n.p.
Miriam Duncan Cross, “’Expressionism, 1900-1955’ Registers Enormous Impact, Oakland Tribune, 1 July 1956, p 8C
Exh. Cat., Boston, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, David Smith 1906-1965: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1966, p. 70
Rosalind E. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York and London, 1977, no. 200, p. 39, illustrated
David Cohen, “Between Whimsey & Gravity: The Sculpture of David Smith,” Metalsmith, Vol. 26, no. 5, 2006, pp. 37 and 39, illustrated in color
Kenneth E. Silver, “The Colossus of Bolton Landing,” Art in America, October 2006, pp. 154 and 159, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Centre Georges Pompidou, David Smith Sculptures 1933-1964, 2006, p. 40
Alan Gouk, “Steel Sculpture Part I: From Gabo to Caro.” Abstract Critical, 17 April 2014, p.5
Christopher Lyon, David Smith Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1932-1965, New Haven and London, 2021, no. 240, p. 283

Worcester, John Woodman Higgins Armory, David Smith Collection, 1947
New York, Willard Gallery, David Smith: Sculpture, 1946-1947, 1947, no. 3
New York, Willard Gallery, Sculpture Group, 1949, no. 20
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Lock Haven, State Teachers College; Memphis, Academy of Arts; Louisville Free Public Library, Junior Art Gallery; Lincoln, University of Nebraska Art Galleries; Champaign, University of Illinois; Jacksonville, MacMurray College; Cambridge, Harvard University, Busch-Reisinger Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; Seattle, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery; Bellingham, Western Washington College; Newark, University of Delaware; Columbia Museum of Art; Athens, University of Georgia; Nashville, The Parthenon; Cedar Falls, Iowa State Teachers College; Evansville Public Museum, Carvers, Modelers, Welders: A Selection of Recent American Sculpture, 1950-1953
Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art, Contemporary American Sculptors, 1953
Cincinnati Modern Art Society; Cincinnati Art Museum; Madison, University of Wisconsin, Memorial Union Galleries; South Bend Art Association; Bloomington, Indiana University, Midwestern College Art Conference, David Smith: Sculpture, Drawings, Graphics, 1954, no. 4
Detroit Institute of Arts, Paintings by Kurt Seligmann, Metal Sculpture by David Smith, 1955
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; Cincinnati Art Museum and Contemporary Arts Center; Baltimore Museum of Art; Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Expressionism, 1900-1955, 1956
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Denver Art Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; St. Louis, City Art Museum of St. Louis; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Recent Sculpture, 1956
New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, David Smith 1906-1965: Small Sculptures of the Mid-Forties, 1968, no. 6, illustrated
Mountainville, Storm King Art Center, David Smith Exhibition, 1976, p. 5
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, David Smith: A Centennial, 2006-2007, no. 41, pp. 135, 299-300, illustrated in color