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| David
Smith | Exhibition History: 1930-1964 | 1965-2007 |
Exhibition
publications are noted only for solo shows and are indicated by
an asterisk (*); see Bibliography for additional information.
National and international exhibitions tours are noted; specific
itineraries provided only for solo shows.
Solo exhibitions are listed first, followed by group exhibitions (designated "group"). |
| 1930 |
Print
Club of Philadelphia, Fourth Annual Exhibition of American
Block Prints, March 17-April 5. (group) |
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| 1934 |
Academy
of Allied Art, New York, Winter Exhibition of Paintings
by Four Contemporary Artists, January 18-February 10. (group) |
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| 1937 |
Boyer
Galleries, New York, Group Show. (group) |
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| 1938 |
East
River Gallery, New York, David Smith: Steel Sculpture,
January 19 to February 5.* |
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Fine
Arts Galleries, New York, American Abstract Artists,
February 14-28. (group) |
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Federal Art Project Works Progress Administration at the Federal Art Gallery, New York, Sculpture Exhibition, March 23-April 16 |
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John
Wanamaker, New York, Second Annual Membership Exhibition
of the American Artists' Congress, May 5-21. (group) |
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Onya
La Tour Gallery, New York, Summer Group Showing of Painters
and Sculptors. (group) |
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Municipal
Art Society, Municipal Art Galleries, New York, 37th Exhibition,
October 25-November 13. (group) |
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| 1939 |
Skidmore
College, Saratoga Springs, NY, David Smith. |
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Riverside
Museum, NY, Third Annual Exhibition of Paintings,
Sculpture, and Prints by American Abstract Artists, March
7-26. (group) |
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ACA
Gallery, New York, Group Show, September 18-30. (group) |
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New
School for Social Research, New York, United American Sculptors
Exhibition, February. (group) |
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New
York Worlds Fair, Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, April 30-October.
(group) |
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| 1940 |
St.
Paul Gallery and School of Art, MN, David Smith, March.
(Traveled to University Gallery, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MI.) |
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Neumann/Willard
Gallery, New York, David Smith, March 25-April 15.* |
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Willard
Gallery, New York, Medals for Dishonor by David Smith,
November 5-23.* |
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Bonestell
Gallery, New York, Twelve Sculptors, February 2-17. (group) |
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Buchholz
Gallery, New York, American Sculpture of Today, December
30-January 18, 1941. (group) |
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| 1941 |
Kalamazoo
Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI, Medals For Dishonor,
February. |
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Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis, Medals For Dishonor, November-December. |
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Buchholz
Gallery, New York, Contemporary U.S. Sculpture, January.
(group) |
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Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of
Sculpture, Watercolors, Drawings and Prints, January 15-February
19. (group) |
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Albany
Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY, Sculptors Guild
Traveling Exhibition, February. (group) |
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Sculptors'
Guild, Village Square, New York, Third Outdoor Sculpture
Exhibition, April 28-May. (group) |
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Albany
Institute of History and Art, NY, 6th Annual Exhibition of
Artists of the Upper Hudson, May. (group) |
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Congress
of American Artists, Hotel Commodore, New York, Anti-War
Show, June. (group) |
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The
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 15 American Sculptors,
October 1-29. (group; traveled) |
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The
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 20th Century Sculptures
and Constructions, October 2-26. (group; traveled) |
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Buchholz
Gallery, New York, Seventy-Five Selected Prints/Small Sculptures,
December 8-27. (group) |
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| 1942 |
Willard
Gallery, New York, Jewelry by David Smith, January.
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Skidmore
College, Saratoga Springs, NY, David Smith, January 8-28.
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Willard
Gallery, New York, Group Show, March. (group) |
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Sculptors'
Guild, Rockefeller Center, New York, Fourth Outdoor Sculpture
Exhibition, September 15-October 15. (group) |
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The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Artists for Victory,
December 7-February 22, 1943. (group) |
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Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, 1942-1943 Annual Exhibition of
Contemporary American Art, November 24-January 6, 1943. (group) |
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Albany
Institute of History and Art, Albany, Seventh Annual Exhibition--Artists
of the Upper Hudson, May. (group) |
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| 1943 |
Willard
Gallery, New York, David Smith, April 6-May 1.* (solo) |
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Willard
Gallery, New York, 7 Years, December 6-31. (solo) |
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Buchholz/Willard
Galleries, New York, American Sculpture of Our Time,
January 5-23. (group) |
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Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of
Contemporary Art, November 23-January 4, 1944. (group) |
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| 1944 |
Albany
Institute of History and Art, 9th Annual Exhibit of Artists
of the Upper Hudson, April 26-June 3. (group) |
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The
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Art in Progress, May 24-October 15. (group) |
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| 1945 |
Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of
Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings,
January 3-February 8. (group) |
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Buchholz
Gallery, New York, Recent Work by American Sculptors,
February 6-24. (group) |
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Albany
Institute of History and Art, Tenth Annual Exhibition of
the Artists of the Upper Hudson, April 26-June 3. (group) |
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Crandall
Public Library, Glens Falls, NY, Ten Masterpieces of Art,
November 3-19. (group) |
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| 1946 |
American
Association of University Women, Biennial Convention, Baker
Hotel, Dallas, David Smith, April 13-20. (Circulating
exhibition organized by the AAUW and Marian Willard Gallery, New
York; traveled to: Gary Public Library, Gary, IN; Fort Wayne
Civic Theatre, IN; Worcester Pressed Steel Museum, MA; Indiana
State Teachers College, Terre Haute; East Central State College
and Public Library, Ada, OK; City Library, Logan, UT; Provo
Public Library, IT; Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH;
Roosevelt College, Chicago; Michigan State College, East Lansing;
Junior Gallery, Louisville, KY; Grinnell College, Grinnell,
IA; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, 1946-52.)* |
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Buchholz
Gallery/Willard Gallery, New York, The Sculpture of David
Smith, January 2-26.* |
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Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of
Contemporary Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, February
5-13. (group) |
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City
Art Museum of St. Louis, Origins of Modern Sculpture,
March 30-May 1. (group) |
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Yale
University Art Gallery, New Haven, Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture: Objects -- Constructions, April 4-May 6. (group) |
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Albany
Institute of History and Art, 11th Annual Exhibition of
Artists of the Upper Hudson, May-June. (group) |
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Wildenstein
Gallery, New York, Sixth Annual Exhibition of Paintings
and Sculpture by Members of the Federation of Modern Painters
and Sculptors, September 18-October 5. (group) |
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The
Clay Club Sculpture Center, New York, Sculpture 1946,
December. (group) |
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| 1947 |
Munson-Williams-Proctor
Institute, Utica, NY, David Smith, opened January 17. |
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Skidmore
College, Saratoga Springs, NY, Sculpture and Drawings by
David Smith, February 4-25. |
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Willard
Gallery, New York, David Smith: Sculpture, 1946-1947,
April 1-26.* |
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Howard
University Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Exhibition
of Modern Sculpture, January-February. (group) |
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Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 142nd Annual Exhibition
of Paintings and Sculpture, January 26-March 2. (group) |
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University
of Nebraska, Nebraska Art Association, Lincoln, 57th Annual
Exhibition of Contemporary Art, March 2-30. (group) |
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Willard
Gallery, New York, Selections from the Marion Willard Gallery,
March 4-25. (group) |
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Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of
Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings,
March 11-April 17. (group) |
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Clay
Club Sculpture Center, New York, Abstract and Non-Objective
Sculpture, October 27-November 29. (group) |
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Art
Institute of Chicago, Abstract and Surrealist American
Art: 58th Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture,
November 6-January 11, 1948. (group) |
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| 1948 |
Allen
R. Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville, KY, David
Smith Medals for Dishonor, November 29-December 18.* |
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Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of
Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings,
January 31-March 21. (group) |
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Worcester
Art Museum, MA, Sculpture at the Crossroads, February 15-March
21. (group) |
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Sculptors'
Guild, New York, 10th Outdoor Sculptors Exhibition,
April. (group) |
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Kleeman
Gallery, New York, Group Show, May. (group) |
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| 1949 |
Willard
Gallery, New York, Group Show, January 4-20. (group) |
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Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of
Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings,
April 2-May 8. (group) |
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Fairmont
Park Art Association, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Third
Sculpture International Exhibition, May 15-September 11. (group) |
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Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Modern Sculpture, Ocober
28-November 27. (group) |
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American
University, Washington, D.C., 19th and 20th Century Sculpture,
November 13-December 20. (group) |
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| 1950 |
Willard
Gallery, New York, David Smith, April 18-May 13.* |
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Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of
Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings,
Apr 1-May 28. (group) |
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Smith
College Museum, Northampton, MA, Works of Art Belonging
to Alumnae, June 1950. (group) |
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Middelheim
Park, Antwerp, Belgium, International Open Air Exhibition,
Summer. (group) |
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Provincetown
Art Association, Provincetown, MA, Post-Abstract Painting
1950--France and America, August 6-September 4. (group) |
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The
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Carvers, Modelers, Welders:
A Selection of Recent American Sculpture, October 5-26. (group; traveled) |
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J.
B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, Midwestern College Art
Conference, Sculpture by Panel Members, October 26-28.
(group) |
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| 1951 |
Willard
Gallery, New York, David Smith, March 27-April 21.* |
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Bennington
College, VT, David Smith, November 16-25. |
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American
University, Washington, D.C., Tradition and Experiment:
An Exhibition of Modern Sculpture, January 21-February 15 (exibition organized by the American Federation of the Arts). (group; traveled) |
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The
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Abstract Painting and Sculpture
in America, Januart 23-March 4. (group) |
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Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of
Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings,
March 17-May 6. (group) |
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University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 34 American Artists, June
4-August 30. (group) |
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Museu
de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, I Bienal de
São Paulo, U.S. Representation, October. (group) |
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Art
Institute of Chicago, 60th Annual Exhibition of Paintings
and Sculpture, October 25-December 16. (group) |
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Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, American Sculpture 1951, December
7-February 24, 1952. (group) |
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| 1952 |
Willard
Gallery and Kleeman Galleries, New York, David Smith: Sculpture
and Drawing, April 1-26.* |
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Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, Sculpture and Drawings: David
Smith, April 12-May 11.* |
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Catholic
University, Washington, D.C., Drawings, Paintings, and
Sculptures by David Smith, October 22-November 14. |
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Williams
College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, David Smith. |
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Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 147th Annual Exhibition
of Paintings and Sculpture, January 21-February 24. (group) |
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Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of
Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings,
March 13-May 4. (group) |
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Art
Institute of Chicago, IL, 12th Annual Exhibition, May
7-June 8. (group) |
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Sculpture
Center, New York, Exhibition: Welded Sculpture, October
6-31. (group) |
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Philadelphia
Museum of Art, Fairmount Park Association, Sculpture of
the Twentieth Century, Oct 11-Dec 7. (group; traveled) |
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| 1953 |
Kootz
Gallery, in association with the Willard Gallery, New York,
David Smith: New Sculpture, January 26-February 14.* |
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University
of Arkansas, Fayetteville, David Smith, February. |
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Catholic
University, Washington, D.C., Drawing, Paintings and Sculpture
by David Smith, October 22-November 14. |
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Willard
Gallery, New York, David Smith: Drawings, December 15-30. |
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Portland
Art Museum, Portland, OR, Exhibition of American Painting
and Sculpture, March. (group) |
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University
of Illinois, Urbana, IL, Contemporary American Painting
and Sculpture, March 1-April 12. (group) |
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Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of
Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings,
April 9-May 29. (group) |
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Musée
National d'Art Moderne, Paris, Douze peintres et sculpteurs
american contemporains [Twelve Modern American Painters and
Sculptors] (exhibition organized
by the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art,
New York), April 24-June 7. (group; traveled) |
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| 1954 |
Willard
Art Gallery, New York, David Smith, January 5-30.* |
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Contemporary
Arts Center in the Cincinnati Art Museum, David Smith:
Sculpture, Drawings, Graphics, May 19-June 13 (exhibition organized
by the Cincinnati Modern Art Society).* |
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Nebraska
Art Association, Lincoln, 64th Annual Exhibition, February
28-Mar 28. (group) |
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Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of
Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings,
March 17-April 18. (group) |
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XXVII
Venice Biennale, American Representation: 2 Pittori, 3
Scultori [2 Painters, 3 Sculptors], June. (group) |
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Art
Institute of Chicago, 61st American Exhibition of Painting
and Sculpture, October 21-December 5. (group) |
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Museum
of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, Plastic and Graphic Expressions by Modern
Sculptors, November 11-31. (group) |
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| 1955 |
Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of
Paintings, Sculpture and Watercolors, January 12-February 20. (group) |
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San
Francisco Museum of Art, Three Contemporary Sculptors,
May 19-June 12. (group) |
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Towle
Silversmiths, Newburyport, MA, Sculpture in Silver from
Islands in Time, September. (group; traveled) |
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| 1956 |
Willard
Gallery, New York, David Smith Sculpture - Drawings, 1954-56,
March 6-31.* |
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Munson-Willliams-Proctor
Institute, Utica, NY, The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture,
Jan 8-29. (group; traveled) |
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Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of
Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings,
April 4-June 10. (group) |
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Musée
Rodin, Paris, Exposition internationale de sculpture contemporaine
[International Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture],
Summer 1956. (group) |
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Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, American Sculpture Today,
October. (group) |
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Contemporary
Arts Association, Houston, Monumentality in Modern Sculpture,
December 13-January 13, 1957. (group) |
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| 1957 |
The
Museum of Modern Art, New York, David Smith, September 10-0ctober
20.* |
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Fine
Arts Associates (Otto M. Gerson), New York, Sculpture by
David Smith, September 17-October 12.* |
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Widdifield
Gallery, New York, David Smith (Sculpture in Silver),
October 15-November 2. |
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Art
Institute of Chicago, LXII American Exhibition: Painting
and Sculpture, January 17-March 3. (group) |
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Albany
Institute of History and Art, 20th-Century Moderns,
February 1-23. (group) |
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Contemporary
Arts Museum, Houston, Irons in the Fire: An Exhibition
of Metal Sculpture, October 17-December 1. (group) |
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Leo
Castelli Gallery, New York, Group Show, December. (group) |
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| 1958 |
Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, Nature in Abstraction,
January 14-March 16. (group; traveled) |
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World's
Fair, Brussels, United States Pavilion, April 3-October 30. (group) |
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XXIX
Biennale di Venezia, U.S. Representation: Lipton, Rothko,
Smith and Tobey, June-October. (group) |
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Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston, The Human Image, October 10-November
23. (group) |
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Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of
Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, November 11-January
4, 1959. (group) |
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Department
of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1958 Pittsburgh
International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture,
December 5-February 8, 1959. (group) |
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| 1959 |
The
New Gallery, Bennington College, VT, David Smith, opened
March 26.* |
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French
and Company, Inc., New York, David Smith: Paintings and
Drawings, September.* |
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Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, The Museum and Its Friends--18
Living American Artists, March 5-April 12, 1959. * (group) |
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The
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Recent Sculpture, U.S.A.,
May 13-August 16. (exhibition organized by The Museum
of Modern Art Junior Council.) (group; traveled) |
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Kassel,
Germany, Dokumenta II: Skulptur, July 11-October 11. (group) |
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Museu
de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, V São Paulo Bienal,
U.S. Representation: Smith, Guston, Francis, Kadish, Frankenthaler,
Goldberg, Kohn, Leslie, Marca-Reilli, Metcalf, Mitchell, Rauschenberg,
September 21-December 31 (exhibition organized by the Minneapolis Institute
of Arts.) (group)
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Fine Arts Associates, New York, Sculpture & Sculptor's
Drawings, September 21-October 10. (group) |
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| 1960 |
French
& Company, Inc., New York, Sculpture by David Smith,
February 17-March 19.* |
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Everett
Ellin Gallery, Los Angeles, David Smith, Sculpture & Drawings,
November 7-December 3.* |
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Otto
Gerson Gallery, New York, Selections: Painting, Sculpture,
Summer-Fall. (group) |
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Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of
Sculpture and Drawing, December 7-January 22, 1961. (group) |
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| 1961 |
Memorial
Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, , David Smith,
November 3-24 (exhibition organized by The Museum
of Modern Art, New York; traveled to: The Phillips-Exeter Academy,
Exteter, NH, December 1961-February, 1962; Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA, February-March, 1962; Phillips Collection,
Washington, D.C., April 1962; Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis,
September 1962; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, October-November 1962; Southern
Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, January 1963; Witte Memorial
Museum, San Antonio, February-March, 1963). |
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Otto
Gerson Gallery, New York, David Smith: Recent Sculpture,
October 10-28.* |
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Department
of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, Pittsburgh
International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture,
October 27-January 7, 1962. (group) |
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Rochester
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York,
Paintings and Sculpture from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
January 15-March 5. (group; traveled) |
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The
Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Art of Assemblage,
October 2-November 20. (group; traveled) |
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New
School for Social Research, New York, Mechanism and Organism,
October 5-November 27. (group) |
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Otto
Gerson Gallery, New York, Spotlight on Sculpture, December-January
1962. (group) |
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| 1962 |
Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, Geometric Abstraction
in America, March 20-May 13. (group) |
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Fine
Arts Pavillion, World's Fair, Seattle, Art Since 1950,
April 4-October 21. (group) |
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Otto
Gerson Gallery, New York, Monumental Sculpture, June-July.
(group) |
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Festival
of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy, Sculpture in the City,
Summer. (group) |
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| 1963 |
State
University of New York. Plattsburg, OH, David Smith: Drawings,
December 1-22. (exhibition organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York; traveled to: Bowling Green State University, OH; University
of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; Northern Michigan University,
Marquette; Mankato State College, MI; State College of Oswego,
NY; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Paterson State
College, Wayne, NJ; Green Mountain College, Poultney, VT;
Madison Art Association, WI; University of Detroit; Skidmore
College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Wichita State University, KS;
Fresno State College, CA).* |
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Balin-Traube
Gallery, New York, David Smith: A Decade of Drawings 1953-63,
May 14-June 14. |
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Art
Institute of Chicago, 66th Annual Exhibition of Paintings
and Sculpture, January 11-February 10. (group) |
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Battersea
Park, London County Council, Sculpture in the Open Air;
Exhibition of Contemporary British and American Works,
May-September. (group) |
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Washington
Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C., Sculptors of Our
Time, September 17-October 31. (group) |
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| 1964 |
Institute
of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
David Smith: Sculpture and Drawings, February 1-March 15.* |
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The
Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, David Smith, June 7-July 5. |
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Marlborough-Gerson
Gallery Inc., New York, David Smith, October.* |
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Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation at the Tate Gallery, London, '54-'64: Paintings and Sculpture of a
Decade, April 22-June 28. (group) |
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World's Fair, New York, New York State Pavilion, April 22-June
28. (group) |
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Kassel,
Germany, Documenta III, Summer. (group) |
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Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition of
Contemporary American Sculpture, December 9-January 31, 1965. (group) |
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