Post #9

David Smith At The Whitney

David Ronald Smith was born on March 9,1906 and passed away on May 23, 1965. He was an American
Abstract Expressionist sculptor and painter, best known for creating large steel abstract geometric
sculptures. Some of David Smith’s sculptures can be found at The Whitney Museum here in New York
City. Today I went to the Whitney Museum because they were holding an exhibition that had a few
sculptures from David Smith’s collection. One piece that grabbed my attention in particular was a metallic
sculpture entitled “Cu-bi Six”. This piece was composed in complete steel. It was first sculpted in nineteen
sixty four for the Israel Museum in Israel. It was brought to New York for David Smith’s exhibition
entitled “David Smith:Cubes and Anarchy”. This sculpture took fours to complete and is said to be on of
the most fragile sculptures David Smith has sculpted. It has two solid cubes on each end of the sculpture
has well as a long metal pole connecting the cubes. There is a solid metallic sphere holds up the sculpture
as well as a long “L” shaped figure on its side. I think this sculpture draws the attention of many viewers
because it shows how well David Smith uses solid and three dimensional figures in an artistic matter. I
thought that this exhibit was very interesting and it inspired me to get more interested in sculptures.

Work Cited
1. “David Smith:Cubes and Anarchy”, Cu-bi Six Sculpture, Whitney Museum