id: 153217 accession number: 1986.19 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.19 updated: 2023-08-23 22:57:11.173000 Untitled (Cubi Study), 1962. David Smith (American, 1906–1965). Blue and black spray paint on heavy weight wove paper; sheet: 50.5 x 66.2 cm (19 7/8 x 26 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1986.19 © The Estate of David Smith / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY title: Untitled (Cubi Study) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1962 creation date earliest: 1962 creation date latest: 1962 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: © The Estate of David Smith / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY --- culture: America, 20th century technique: blue and black spray paint on heavy weight wove paper department: Drawings collection: DR - American 20th Century type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * David Smith (American, 1906–1965) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 50.5 x 66.2 cm (19 7/8 x 26 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: On verso: estate of david smith / acc. no. 73 62.208 [stamped in black ink, numbers written in ballpoint pen]; upper center, in graphite: T; lower right, in graphite, 2 / 26 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review for 1986 opening date: 1987-02-04T05:00:00 Year in Review for 1986. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-March 15, 1987). title: Changing Dimensions: Works on Paper by Sculptors opening date: 1995-11-22T05:00:00 Changing Dimensions: Works on Paper by Sculptors. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1995-January 24, 1996). title: American Drawings from the Permanent Collection opening date: 1998-04-19T00:00:00 American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00 The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * David Smith: Sprays from Bolton Landing. Anthony d'Offay, London (July 3 - August 24, 1985). * David Smith: Zeichnungen. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Graphische Sammlung (January - February 29, 1976); Nationalgalerie Berlin Staatliche Museen Preussen Kulturbesitz (March 16 - May 2, 1976); Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum der Stadt Duisburg. --- PROVENANCE Estate of the artist (the artist's daughters Candida and Rebecca Smith) date: 1965-? footnotes: citations: (Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1986 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1986- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Although David Smith was best known as a sculptor, drawing was integral to his creative process. digital description: This drawing belongs to sculptor David Smith's "sprays" series (about 1957 to early 1960s), which exemplifies the artist's additive approach to composition. The drawings developed from his sculpture-making process, in which he manipulated pieces of steel on large white rectangles painted on his studio floor. Similarly, for his spray drawings, Smith placed scraps of metal, paper, and other found objects on a sheet of paper or canvas and sprayed enamel paint from various angles, allowing the support to set the image where the objects blocked the paint. wall description: This sheet belongs to a group of drawings by sculptor David Smith known as the "sprays" (about 1957-early 1960s), which exemplify the artist's additive approach to composition. The drawings developed from his sculpture-making process, in which he manipulated pieces of steel on large white rectangles painted on his studio floor. Similarly, for his spray drawings, Smith placed scraps of metal, paper, and other found objects on a sheet of paper or canvas and sprayed enamel paint from various angles, allowing the support to set the image where the objects blocked the paint. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS David Smith: Zeichnungen. Exh. Cat. Stuttgart: Staatsgalerie, 1976. page number: Mentioned: pp. 6-7, 25, no. 65; Reproduced: p. 25 url: Ameringer, Will. David Smith: Sprays from Bolton Landing. Exh. Cat. London: Anthony d'Offay, 1985. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 47 url: Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1986." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 2 (February 1987): 38-79. page number: Mentioned: p. 73; Reproduced: p. 71 url: DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. page number: Mentioned: p. 9, pp. 276-277, 298; Reproduced: p. 277 url: Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006. page number: Mentioned: p. 121, no. 101 url: --- IMAGES