biographie de Tony SMITH (1912-1980)

Birth place: South Orange, NJ

Addresses: Orange, NJ

Profession: Sculptor, painter, architect

Studied: ASL, 1934-35, with Geo. Grosz and V. Vytlacil; New Bauhaus, Chicago, 1937-38, with Moholy-Nagy (architecture); apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright, 1938-40.

Exhibited: Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn, 1964, 1967; Jewish Mus, NYC, 1966; WMAA, !966, 1970, 1973; Philadelphia Inst Contemp Art, 1967; World's Fair, Osaka, 1970; Knoedler Gal., NYC, 1970s; MoMA, 1998 (retrospective)

Work: Princeton Univ.

Comments: Minimalist sculptor. Smith worked as an architect from 1938 to c.1963 and although he painted and sculpted in these years and was a member of the avant-garde, he did not show his work until the 1960s. In 1961, he began the first of a series of complex, sometimes monumental, geometric sculptures that would earn him recognition as an important minimalist sculptor of the 1960s-70s. Teaching: NYU, 1946-50; Cooper Union, 1950s; Pratt Inst; Bennington College; Hunter College, 1962-. Cf. Anthony Smith.

Sources: WW73; Samuel Wagstaff, Jr., Talking with Tony Smith," Artforum vol. 5 (Dec. 1966): pp.14-19; Baigell, Dictionary; Two Hundred Years of American Sculpture, 311; Eleanor Greene, Tony Smith: Painting and Sculpture (exh. cat., Univ. of Maryland, 1974)."

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