WATTS INDEXThe canonical database of visual culture

Artists›David Smith

David Smith

David Smith

American

WA-00003833

Mixed MediaSurrealismAbstract ExpressionismExpressionism

Representation

None documented

34

Institutional Exhibitions

53

Works in Collection

104

Assets Indexed

8

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

90%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

Influence Graph

No influence edges encoded yet.

Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ111986803

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

View all exhibitions →

No image

Master Prints from the Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1989

No image

Recent Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1988–1989

No image

Master Prints from the Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1987–1988

No image

Drawing since 1940

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1987

No image

Sculptors' Drawings

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1986

No image

American Prints: 1900�1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1985–1986

No image

Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1984

No image

The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from The Museum of Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1983–1984

No image

Recent Acquisitions: Drawings

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1981

No image

Thirty Sculptors' Drawings

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1979

No image

Some American Drawings: Recent Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1976

No image

Ways of Looking

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1971

Field Verification (5 fields)

2 cross-verified · 3 single-source

NationalityWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
Primary mediumWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
BiographyGallery Generic + Unknown· 72%
LocationWikidata· 75%
DeceasedUnknown· 20%

Source Registry (4)

Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/david-smith
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Hauser-Wirthhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/david-smith-3
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/5480
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Wikidata Patch
Tier 1 · Institutional40%

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for David Smith yet.

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Surrealism

Medium

Mixed Media

Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern ArtNew York The Metropolitan Museum of Art Tate Whitney Museum of American Art Art Institute of Chicago

Canonical record

Artworks (53)

1996 · color etching, aquatint, roulette, and engraving

Sheet: 91 x 77 cm (35 13/16 x 30 5/16 in.); Platemark: 63.8 x 60.3 cm (25 1/8 x 23 3/4 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

1965 · Stainless steel

9 ft. 5 3/4 in. × 10 ft. 3 in. × 30 1/2 in., 2178 lb. (288.9 × 312.4 × 77.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wagon II

object: 2140 x 1175 x 2875 mm, 1300 kg

Painting 1964

1964 · Oil paint on canvas on plywood

support: 1397 x 451 mm

Cubi XIX

1964 · Stainless steel

object: 2864 x 1480 x 1016 mm 225 kg

Untitled (Study for Cubi VII)

Untitled (Study for Cubi VII)

1963 · Black, blue and ochre spray enamel with black pastel and white oil paint on cream laid paper

Max: 40.8 × 29.7 cm (16 1/8 × 11 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Cubi VII

1963 · Stainless steel

281.9 × 175.3 × 58.4 cm (111 × 69 × 23 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Cubi X

1963 · Stainless steel

10' 1 3/8" x 6' 6 3/4" x 24" (308.3 x 199.9 x 61 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Zig VII

1963 · Painted steel

8' 1/4" x 8' 3 1/2" x 7' 1 1/4" (244.5 x 252.7 x 216.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1963 · Spray paint with masking out on paper

16 3/8 × 11 3/4 in. (41.6 × 29.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Untitled

1962 · Enamel on canvas

15 1/2 x 16 1/8" (39.4 x 40.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (Cubi Study)

1962 · 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.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

1961 · Painted steel

Overall: 87 1/2 × 21 9/16 × 29 13/16 in. (222.3 × 54.8 × 75.7 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Sentinel

1961 · Stainless steel

9' x 21" x 24" (274.3 x 53.3 x 61 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled 13/3/59

Untitled 13/3/59

1959 · Ink and gouache on paper

40 x 26 5/8" (101.4 x 67.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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

Cleveland Museum of Art

History of LeRoy Borton

History of LeRoy Borton

1956 · Painted steel and found metal elements

7' 4 1/4" x 26 3/4" x 24 1/2" (224.1 x 67.9 x 62.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1955 · Gouache, selectively incised, on cream wove paper

75.5 × 108.5 cm (29 3/4 × 42 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago Circle

11 (27.9 cm) in diameter x 3/4" (1.9 cm) in depth

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled 5/28/55

Untitled 5/28/55

1955 · Oil crayon on paper

29 3/4 x 42 3/8" (75 x 107.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Portrait of My Initials, K.K.

Portrait of My Initials, K.K.

1954 · Brush and black ink on cream wove paper

22.5 × 29.5 cm (8 7/8 × 11 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Family)

Untitled (Family)

1954 · Lithograph on off-white wove paper

Image: 21 × 57.5 cm (8 5/16 × 22 11/16 in.); Sheet: 25.5 × 65.5 cm (10 1/16 × 25 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Exhibition, Willard Gallery

Exhibition, Willard Gallery

1954 · Lithograph

20 1/2 × 15 3/4" (52.1 × 40 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Composition

1954 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 8 9/16 x 22 3/4" (21.8 x 57.8 cm); sheet (irreg.): 9 5/16 x 25 5/16" (23.7 x 64.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

View all 53 artworks →

Artwork sources (6)

53 published of 77 catalogued · 59 with image

MoMA
24 publishedof 48 catalogued45 img
Art Institute Chicago
10 published10 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
7 published
The Met
7 published
Tate
4 published4 img
Whitney
1 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 10)

10 entries · 1 sources

Pilgrim
1957 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Olive Tree II
1996 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Bather
1940 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Ballet
1941 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Painting 1964
1964 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Don Quixote
1952 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Untitled (Cubi Study)
1962 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Untitled
1928 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Don Quixote
1952 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Cubi XIX
1964 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

13 assets

David Smith (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia

Tanktotem I (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

(Met Museum)

Met Museum

David Smith, Big Diamond (1952) (34885347616) cropped

Wikimedia Commons (Instagram fallback)

Signature plaque on 'Hirebecca' by David Smith, 1961

Wikimedia Commons (Instagram fallback)

Saw Head (1933) by David Smith (5899787866)

Wikimedia Commons (Instagram fallback)

Home of the welder Tate Modern L01025 n01

Wikimedia Commons (Instagram fallback)

David Smith02

Wikimedia Commons (Instagram fallback)

View all 13 media items →

Relationships

14

Movements5

Surrealism Abstract Expressionism Expressionism Geometric Abstraction Constructivism

Collections9

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art Art Institute of Chicago Tate Whitney Museum of American Art

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Tate

In collection

Whitney Museum of American Art

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction