Tony Smith

Tony Smith (born 1912) made more than 50 large-scale sculptures between 1960 and his death in 1980. Their distinct black finish and geometric forms represent one of the supreme achievements in American sculpture, and his unique vision has proven enormously influential on subsequent generations. His work is included in most leading international public collections, including those of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; MoMA; Tate Gallery, London; and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. The artist's first one-person exhibition was held at the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1966, in which the three present sculptures were first exhibited. 


- Tony Smith often began working on a new sculpture by rearranging elements used in previous sculptures and incorporating new ones:  Marriage andNight were born out of the rearranged and augmented modules of a slightly earlier work.  

- The exhibition 100 Drawings & Photographs  features a diverse group of works by 100 artists, reflecting the gallery's early history of showing works on paper. Published on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Matthew Marks Gallery, this beautifully produced volume includes one work each by 100 artists, arranged alphabetically, one to a page. It presents an enormous variety of works






-  I enjoyed Tony's work, his work is very simple and bold. He shows a wide variety of geometric structures. There are some sculptors that use a wide variety of complex and odd shapes. Tony however uses simple and geometric figures that you can recognize. Tony also relates this work to other artists and painters that he is inspired by and that is the reason for 100  Drawings and Photographs.