id:			142662
accession number:	1966.385
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.385
updated:		2025-08-07 22:51:10.248000

Pilgrim, 1957. David Smith (American, 1906–1965). Steel; overall: 206.9 cm (81 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.385. ©  The Estate of David Smith / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

title:				Pilgrim
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creation date:			1957
creation date earliest:		1957
creation date latest:		1957
current location:		227 Abstract Expressionism
creditline:			Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art
copyright:			©  The Estate of David Smith / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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culture:	America
technique:	steel
department:	American Painting and Sculpture
collection:	American - Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* David Smith (American, 1906–1965)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 206.9 cm (81 7/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1967
	opening date:   1967-11-29T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1967</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967).

	title:		Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture
	opening date:   1975-09-24T04:00:00
	<i>Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).

	title:		Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960
	opening date:   1987-09-16T04:00:00
	<i>Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 16-November 8, 1987).

	title:		The Fields of David Smith (Part II)
	opening date:   1998-05-01T00:00:00
	<i>The Fields of David Smith (Part II)</i>. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY (May 1-November 1, 1998).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, 1958: "Sculpture 1950-1958," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, XV (Winter 1958), p. 83, illus.', 'opening_date': '1958-10-01T04:00:00Z'}

* {'description': 'Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1957: "David Smith"', 'opening_date': '1957-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Sao Paulo Biennial, 1959', 'opening_date': '1959-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1966: "David Smith, 1906-1965: A Retrospective Exhibition," cat. #332, also to Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 1967', 'opening_date': '1966-09-01T04:00:00Z'}

* {'description': 'Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA: Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945-1986, December 6, 1986-June 10, 1987.', 'opening_date': '1986-12-06T00:00:00'}

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Henning, Edward B. “Two New Contemporary Sculptures.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 54, no. 7 (September 1967): 219–227.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 223-225, fig. 5
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152168

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 201
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n225

	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History &amp; Education, CMA, 1969.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 4
	url:		https://archive.org/details/20thCenturyArtCMA/page/n5

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Gabriel P. Weisberg, H. W. Janson, and Case Western Reserve University. <em>Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture</em>. Cleveland, Kent, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art ; Distributed by the Kent State University Press, 1975.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 139; Mentioned: p. 144, no. 118
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 253
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n273

	Henning, Edward B. <em>Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-</em>1960. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1987.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 135, no. 46
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	Smith, Candida N., David Smith, Irving Sandler, Mark Di Suvero, Jerry L. Thompson, and Storm King Art Center. <em>The Fields of David Smith.</em> Mountainville, N.Y., New York, N.Y.: Storm King Art Center; Thames &amp; Hudson, 1999.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 143
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	Brenson, Michael. <em>David Smith: The Art and Life of a Transformational Sculptor. </em>First edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
	page number: 	Mentioned, p. 496
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