A sculptor of minimalist outdoor pieces, many of them linear with great volume and of dark, smooth metal, Tony Smith was from South Orange, New Jersey. He first trained as an architect and in 1939... Read full biography
A sculptor of minimalist outdoor pieces, many of them linear with great volume and of dark, smooth metal, Tony Smith was from South Orange, New Jersey. He first trained as an architect and in 1939 began working for Frank Lloyd Wright. He also did some painting as a part-time student at the Art... Read full biography
A sculptor of minimalist outdoor pieces, many of them linear with great volume and of dark, smooth metal, Tony Smith was from South Orange, New Jersey. He first trained as an architect and in 1939 began working for Frank Lloyd Wright. He also did some painting as a part-time student at the Art Students League but did not begin sculpting until 1956 when he was age 44. His first exhibitions were in 1964. Smith became close friends with Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothco, and Clyfford Still, and his... Read full biography
A sculptor of minimalist outdoor pieces, many of them linear with great volume and of dark, smooth metal, Tony Smith was from South Orange, New Jersey. He first trained as an architect and in 1939 began working for Frank Lloyd Wright. He also did some painting as a part-time student at the Art Students League but did not begin sculpting until 1956 when he was age 44. His first exhibitions were in 1964. Smith became close friends with Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothco, and Clyfford Still, and his sculpture shows their abstract influence. Smith was also a teacher in various institutions including New York University, Cooper Union, Pratt Institute, Bennington College and Hunter College. A major retrospective, "Tony Smith: Architect, Painter,... Read full biography
A sculptor of minimalist outdoor pieces, many of them linear with great volume and of dark, smooth metal, Tony Smith was from South Orange, New Jersey. He first trained as an architect and in 1939 began working for Frank Lloyd Wright. He also did some painting as a part-time student at the Art Students League but did not begin sculpting until 1956 when he was age 44. His first exhibitions were in 1964. Smith became close friends with Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothco, and Clyfford Still, and his sculpture shows their abstract influence. Smith was also a teacher in various institutions including New York University, Cooper Union, Pratt Institute, Bennington College and Hunter College. A major retrospective, "Tony Smith: Architect, Painter, Sculptor," was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1998. Source:. Matthew Baigell, "Dictionary of American Art"... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (71)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Sculpture From the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
2005
Janovy, Karen O. (Editor); David Cateforis (Intro)
246 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
187 pages
Visual Arts in the 20th Century
1997
Lucie-Smith, Edward
400 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art
1996
Demetrion, James T (Introduction)
166 pages (color)
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
Sculpture An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1994
National Gallery of Art
283 pages
Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
1993
Kostelanetz, Richard
246 pages
The Turning Point Abstract Expression and the Transformation of American Art
1992
Kingsley, April
416 pages (color)
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970
1992
Seitz, William C
250 pages (color)
The Annual & Biennial Exhibition Record of the Whitney Museum of Art (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1918-1989) (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor); Andrea Ansell Bien
468 pages
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen
230 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Minimalism Art of Circumstance
1988
Baker, Kenneth
144 pages (color)
American Art of the 1960s
1988
Sandler, Irving
412 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
1987
Feldman, Edmund Burke
528 pages (color)
The Empire State Collection Art for the Public
1987
Sandler, Irving
214 pages (color)
An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Hunter, Sam
269 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Twentieth Century Artists on Art
1985
Ashton, Dore (Editor)
302 pages
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
Dallas Museum of Art Selected Works
1984
Bromberg, Anne R
219 pages (color)
Sculpture in America (new and revised edition)
1984
Craven, Wayne
782 pages
Blam, the Explosion of Pop, Minimalism and Performance 1958-1964 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Haskell, Barbara
160 pages
The Museum of Modern Art, New York The History and the Collection
1984
Hunter, Sam
599 pages (color)
Movements in Art since 1945 New Revised Edition
1984
Lucie-Smith, Edward
288 pages (color)
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
American Art Since 1945
1982
Ashton, Dore
224 pages (color)
Tracking the Marvelous A Life in the New York Art World
1981
Myers, John Bernard
285 pages
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Urban Encounters Art, Architecture, Audience
1980
Institute of Contemporary Art
64 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
1979
Brown, Milton W (others)
616 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
730 pages
Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Dillenberger, Jane & John
175 pages (color)
American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources
1977
Ekdahl, Janis
260 pages
200 Years of American Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Armstrong, Tom
336 pages (color)
Beyond Modern Art
1976
Gottlieb, Carla
434 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776
1976
Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc
208 pages (color)
American Art Since 1945 From the Collection of MOMA
1975
Legg, Alicia
84 pages (color)
A Decade of Sculpture The 1960s
1974
Busch, Julia
236 pages (color)
Tony Smith Paintings and Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Green, Eleanor
24 pages (color)
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
Contemporary Art Exploring It's Roots and Development
1973
Johnson, Charlotte Buel
96 pages (color)
American Art Third Quarter Century (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Van Der Marck, Jan
138 pages (color)
American Art of the 20th Century
1972
Hunter, Sam
487 pages (color)
Eroticism in Contemporary Art
1972
Kahmen, Volker
282 pages (color)
Contemporary Art 1942-72
1972
Sandler, Irving (intro)
479 pages (color)
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971
Bell, David
2,139 pages (color)
Icons and Images of the Sixties
1971
Calas, Nicolas and Elena
347 pages
American Artists of the 1960's School of Fine Arts, Centenial Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Boston University
60 pages
L'art Vivant aux Etats-Unis (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Fondation Maeght
164 pages (color)
Art Today
1969
Faulkner, Ray; Edwin Ziegfeld
542 pages (color)
New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-1970 (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Geldzahler, Henry
494 pages (color)
Twentieth Century Art From the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Lieberman, William
139 pages (color)
Plus by Minus, Today's Half Centu (Exhibition catalog)