G A G O S I A N G AL L E R Y David Smith Biography Born in 1906, Decatur, IN. Died in 1965, Albany, NY. Education: 1926 Arts Students League, New York, NY. Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2014 Raw Color: The Circles of David Smith. The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA. 2013 David Smith: The Forgings. Gagosian Gallery, Madison Ave., New York, NY. 2012 David Smith: Points of Power. Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich, Switzerland and St. Moritz, Switzerland. David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy. Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH. 2011 David Smith Invents. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. David Smith: Drawing Space. Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 2010 David Smith. Gagosian Gallery, W. 24th St., New York, NY. 2008 David Smith: Working Surface Drawing, Painting, Sculpture: 1932-1963. Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich, Switzerland. 2007 David Smith: Sprays. Gagosian Gallery, Madison Ave., New York, NY. 2006 David Smith: Personage. Gagosian Gallery, Britannia St., London, England. David Smith: Personage. Gagosian Gallery, Madison Ave., New York, NY. David Smith: A Centennial (curated by Carmen Giménez). Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. Traveled to: Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Tate Modern, London, England (through 2007). 2005 David Smith: Paintings and Drawings 1955-1958. Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. David Smith: Drawing and Sculpting. Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX. 2004 David Smith: Drawings. L’Institut Valencià D’Art Modern, Valencià, Spain. David Smith: Related Clues. Drawings, Paintings & Sculpture 1931–1964. Gagosian Gallery, 24th St., New York, NY. 2003 David Smith: Drawings. Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, France. Lois Orswell, David Smith, & Modern Art. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA. 2000 David Smith: Two into Three Dimensions. Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR. Traveled to: Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA; Mary and Leigh Block Art Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Lyman Allyn Museum of Art, New London, CT; National Academy of Design Museum, New York, NY. David Smith: The Last Nudes. Gagosian Gallery, Madison Ave., New York, NY; Traveled to: Gagosian Gallery, Heddon St., London, England. David Smith on the Roof. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. 1999 David Smith: Paintings, Sculptures and Medals. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel. 1998 Painted Steel: The Late Works of David Smith. Gagosian Gallery, SoHo, New York, NY. 1 1997 The Fields of David Smith. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York (through 1999). 1996 David Smith. IVAM, Centro Julio González, Valencia, Spain; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid. Spain. 1995 David Smith in Italy. Prado Milanoarte, Milan, Italy. 1994 David Smith. Session Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan. Traveled to: Shizuoka Prefecture Museum of Art, Japan; The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan; Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan. 1991 David Smith: Medals for Dishonor, 1937-1940. Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture, Leeds, England. Traveled to: Imperial War Museum, London, England; The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England; Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY. 1990 David Smith: Drawings and Sculpture, (A Component of the Fourth Australian Scupture Triennial). Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. 1986 David Smith. Hans Strelow, Dusseldorf, Germany. 1986 David Smith: Skulpturen und Zeichnungen. Kunstsamlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany. Traveled to: Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, Germany; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England. 1985 The Drawings of David Smith. International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C. 1982 David Smith. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. David Smith: Painter, Sculptor, Draftsman and From the Life of the Artist: A Documentary View of David Smith. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1979 David Smith: The Drawings. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Traveled to: Serpentine Gallery, London, England. David Smith, Galerie Weentzel, Hamburg, Germany. 1976 David Smith: Zeichnungen. Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany; Staatliche Musee- Preussicher Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany; Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg, Germany. 1969 David Smith. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, TX. Traveled to: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1966 David Smith 1906–1965. Rijkmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterloo, Netherlands; Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, England; Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland; Kunsthalle, Nuremberg, Germany; Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg, Germany. 1965 David Smith: A Memorial Exhibition. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. 1964 Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, NY. 1962 David Smith. Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy. 1959 Documenta II. Kassel, Germany. 1958 Venice Biennale. Venice, Italy. 1957 David Smith: Retrospective. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. 1951 David Smith. Bennington College, Bennington, VT. 1950 Willard Gallery, New York, NY. 1947 David Smith: Specter Series. Willard Gallery, New York, NY. David Smith. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY. 1946 The Sculpture of David Smith. Willard Gallery/Buchholz Gallery, New York, NY. 1943 David Smith. Willard Gallery, New York, NY. 7 Years. Willard Gallery, New York, NY. 1941 Medals for Dishonor. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. 1940 World’s Fair, New York, NY. David Smith. St. Paul Gallery and School of Art, St. Paul, MI. David Smith. Neumann/Willard Gallery, New York, NY. David Smith: Medals for Dishonor. Willard Gallery, New York, NY. 1939 David Smith. Skidmore College, Saratoga, NY. 1938 David Smith: Steel Sculpture. Marian Willard’s East River Gallery, New York, NY. 2 Selected Group Exhibitions: 2015 Prototypology: An Index of Process and Mutation. Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy. Sprayed. Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London, England. America Is Hard to See. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Chromophobia. Gagosian Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland. 2013 Poetry and Dream. Tate Gallery, London, England. Abstractions Americaines, de l’artist à son oeuvre. Fondation Fernet-Branca, Saint Louis, France. 2012 WWII & NYC. New-York Historical Society, New York, NY. Bronze. Royal Academy of Arts, London, England. Signs & Symbols. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. 2011 Miro—Chagall—Smith—Calder. Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich, Switzerland. Malevich and the American Legacy. Gagosian Gallery, Madison Ave., New York, NY. Made in Italy. Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy. Treasures from Washington Private Collections. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. 2010 Modern in America: Works on Paper, 1900–1950s. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Advancing Abstraction in Modern Sculpture. The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland, MD. Americans Abroad: Masterworks by Modern and Contemporary Artists. United States Embassy, London, England. 2009 Modern Masters. Gagosian Gallery, Madison Ave., New York, NY. The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1960–1989. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. Marble. Gagosian Gallery, Madison Ave, New York, NY. Face and Form: Modern and Contemporary Sculpture in the Meadows Collection. Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX. New York New Drawings: 1946–2007. Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain. 2008 Untitled (Vicarious) Photographing The Constructed Object. Gagosian Gallery, Madison Ave., New York, NY. Collecting Collection: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976. The Jewish Museum, New York; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. 2007 Abstract Expressionist Drawings. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. 2006 Surrealism: Then and Now. Paul Kasmin & Edelman Arts, Inc., New York, NY. 2005 Babcock Galleries, New York, NY. Works on Paper. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA. David Smith, Alexander Calder: Large Scale Works. Gagosian Gallery, W. 24th St., New York, NY. 1993 Picasso and the Age of Iron. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. Traveled to: Fort Worth Museum of Art, Fort Worth, TX. 1988 From the South Cross: A View of World Art c.1940-1988. The Australian Biennale, Sydney, Australia. Traveled to: The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, FL. 1986 Que’est-ce que la Sculpture Moderne? Musée National d’art Moderne, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France. 1985 Transformation in Sculpture: Four Decades of American and European Art. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. 1983 The Modern Drawing. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. 1983 Modern Art in the West: Guggenheim. Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. 3 1982 American Masters of the Twentieth Century. Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL. 1981 Sculpture of the 20th Century: 1900-1945. Foundation Maeght, St. Paul, MN. 1980 Skuplturen der Moderne. Galerie de France, Paris, France. 1978 American Art at Mid-Century: The Subject of the Artists. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1968 Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. 1967 Guggenheim International Exhibition. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. 1943 American Sculpture of Our Time. Bucholz Gallery/Willard Gallery, New York, NY. 1939 United American Sculptors Exhibition. New School for Social Research, New York, NY. 1934 Julien Levy Gallery, New York, NY. 4 .