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"tombstone": "Pilgrim, 1957. David Smith (American, 1906\u20131965). Steel; overall: 206.9 cm (81 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.385. \u00a9 The Estate of David Smith / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY",
"current_location": "227 Abstract Expressionism",
"title": "Pilgrim",
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"id": 301129,
"title": "Year in Review: 1967",
"description": "Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967).",
"opening_date": "1967-11-29T05:00:00"
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"title": "Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture",
"description": "Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).",
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"title": "Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960",
"description": "Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 16-November 8, 1987).",
"opening_date": "1987-09-16T04:00:00"
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"id": 220726,
"title": "The Fields of David Smith (Part II)",
"description": "The Fields of David Smith (Part II). Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY (May 1-November 1, 1998).",
"opening_date": "1998-05-01T00:00:00"
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"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"
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"description": "Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1957: \"David Smith\"",
"opening_date": "1957-01-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "Sao Paulo Biennial, 1959",
"opening_date": "1959-01-01T00:00:00"
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"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"
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{
"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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"did_you_know": "The teenaged David Smith took a correspondence course in cartooning with the Cleveland School (now Institute) of Art.",
"description": "A former automobile assembly line worker, Smith welded locomotives and tanks for a manufacturer during World War II. Perhaps not surprisingly, he adopted industrial materials and techniques throughout his career as a sculptor. Regarding his preferred medium, Smith stated, \"The material called iron or steel I hold in high respect . . .The metal itself possesses little art history. What associations it possesses are those of this century: power, structure, movement, progress, suspension, destruction, brutality.\"",
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"citation": "Smith, Rebecca, Candida N. Smith, Michael Brenson, Sarah Hamill, Marc-Christian Roussel, Tracee Ng, and David Smith. David Smith Sculpture : A Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9, 1932-1965. Edited by Christopher Lyon and Susan J. Cooke. [New York, NY]: The Estate of David Smith, 2021.",
"page_number": "Vol. 1, mentioned, p. 362; reproduced, pp. 45, 117, 150; Vol. 3, mentioned, pp. 130-31; reproduced, p. 131.",
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"citation": "Hamilton, Chloe and Forbes Whiteside, \"\"Sculpture 1950\u20131958,\" Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 15 (Winter 1958).",
"page_number": "Mentioned, p. 61; reproduced, unpaginated [p. 83].",
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"citation": "Henning, Edward B. \u201cTwo New Contemporary Sculptures.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54, no. 7 (September 1967): 219\u2013227.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 223-225, fig. 5",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152168"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 201",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n225"
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History & Education, CMA, 1969.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 4",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/20thCenturyArtCMA/page/n5"
},
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Gabriel P. Weisberg, H. W. Janson, and Case Western Reserve University. Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. 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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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n273"
},
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"citation": "Henning, Edward B. Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. [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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},
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"citation": "Smith, Candida N., David Smith, Irving Sandler, Mark Di Suvero, Jerry L. Thompson, and Storm King Art Center. The Fields of David Smith. Mountainville, N.Y., New York, N.Y.: Storm King Art Center; Thames & Hudson, 1999.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 143",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Brenson, Michael. David Smith: The Art and Life of a Transformational Sculptor. First edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.",
"page_number": "Mentioned, p. 496",
"url": ""
}
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