cavetocanvas:

Tony Smith, She Who Must Be Obeyed, 1975

From the Smithsonian American Art Museum:

“I always like to look at the sites in the dark because I feel that a lot of the detail is eliminated, and you can grasp the major features better.” Tony Smith, quoted in Donald Thalacker, The Place of Art in the World of Architecture, 1980

In March 1974 the General Services Administration commissioned Tony Smith to make a sculpture for the Department of Labor building in Washington, D.C. A few months later the artist was ready to present this maquette to the GSA Design Review Panel for final approval. Smith was concerned with getting the model safely from his studio in New Jersey to Washington, and carefully wrapped it and carried it like “a newborn child” (Thalacker, The Place of Art in the World of Architecture, 1980). The maquette had its own seat on the plane and arrived safely at National Airport. Smith hailed a taxi, and the driver, insisting that the model would be safer in the trunk than on the seat, slammed the trunk lid on one of its edges. Despite the damage to the model, the GSA panelists unanimously approved his design. Smith often titled his pieces after literary works, and this maquette was named after the central character in H. Rider Haggard’s 1887 novel She. The completed sculpture was installed in 1976 and measures 30 by 24 by 8 feet.

Check out the Wikipedia article that has been written about this artwork as part of INCCA-NA’s efforts to document ever single Tony Smith in the world.  Get busy folks and get a t-shrt!

You can hear me talk about the project over on MAN’s podcast.  Click here to listen.

manpodcast:

The second segment of this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Indianapolis Museum of Art conservator Richard McCoy talking about the International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art-North America’s Tony Smith Artist Research Project. 

McCoy and his colleagues have created project on which they’re trying to use Wikipedia to document all 83 of Smith’s outdoor sculptures, making pictures, available technical documentation and information about the works publicly available, and for free. Anyone may contribute an entry on one of Smith’s outdoor works, so check out the list of outdoor Smiths to see if there’s one near you! (Bonus: If you complete an entry, INCCA-NA will send you this kick-ass t-shirt as a thank-you.)

This is the cover of the October 13, 1967 issue of Time magazine featuring a plywood version of Smith’s Smoke at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. One edition of the piece — made out of painted aluminum — is now in the collection (and installed at) the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Flickr users have taken a lot of great pictures of it!

Listen to McCoy discuss the project on this week’s MAN Podcast: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast (it’s free!) via iTunes, SoundCloud or RSS.

manpodcast:

The second segment of this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Indianapolis Museum of Art conservator Richard McCoy talking about the International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art-North America’s Tony Smith Artist Research Project. 

McCoy and his colleagues have created project on which they’re trying to use Wikipedia to document all 83 of Smith’s outdoor sculptures, making pictures, available technical documentation and information about the works publicly available, and for free. Anyone may contribute an entry on one of Smith’s outdoor works, so check out the list of outdoor Smiths to see if there’s one near you! (Bonus: If you complete an entry, INCCA-NA will send you this kick-ass t-shirt as a thank-you.)

This is Moondog (1964) at the National Gallery of Art. It’s been documented on Wikipedia here.

Listen to McCoy discuss the project on this week’s MAN Podcast: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast (it’s free!) via iTunes, SoundCloud or RSS.

architecttonic:

Moondog. Tony Smith.

manpodcast:

The second segment of this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Indianapolis Museum of Art conservator Richard McCoy talking about the International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art-North America’s Tony Smith Artist Research Project. 

McCoy and his colleagues have created project on which they’re trying to use Wikipedia to document all 83 of Smith’s outdoor sculptures, making pictures, available technical documentation and information about the works publicly available, and for free. Anyone may contribute an entry on one of Smith’s outdoor works, so check out the list of outdoor Smiths to see if there’s one near you! (Bonus: If you complete an entry, INCCA-NA will send you this kick-ass t-shirt as a thank-you.)

This is Smith’s Marriage (1961). I’m not sure which of the four extant versions of the sculpture it is, but none of them have been documented for the project. The four versions are in Des Moines, Oslo, Calistoga, Calif., and one is in a private collection.

Listen to McCoy discuss the project on this week’s MAN Podcast: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast (it’s free!) via iTunes, SoundCloud or RSS.

droneshmrone:

Marriage

Tony Smith
1961 

appuntimiei:

Tony Smith
The Snake is Out (1962)

(by Montague Projects)