Smith, David (1906–65). Sculptor, painter, draftsman, and photographer
Among the most significant American sculptors of the twentieth century, he ranked as the first to grasp the potential of welded metal as a sculptural medium. Nonrepresentational despite lingering attachments to figure and landscape, often indebted to surrealism as well as cubism and constructivism, sophisticated but not arty, bold, grandly scaled, and attentive to materials, his varied and unprecedented works embody the spirit of ... ...
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