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Robert Smithson (1938-1973)

Aliases: Robert (1938) Smithson

Professions: Sculptor; Painter

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    Robert Smithson , 1938-1973 Alogon #3 painted steel in 20 units

    Robert Smithson , 1938-1973 Alogon #3 painted steel in 20 units

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    Robert Smithson (1938-1973)

    Robert Smithson (1938-1973)

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    Robert Smithson , 1938-1973 The Cryosphere painted steel with chrome inserts in 6 units

    Robert Smithson , 1938-1973 The Cryosphere painted steel with chrome inserts in 6 units

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    Robert Smithson (1938-1973)

    Robert Smithson (1938-1973)

Robert Smithson Biography

(b Passaic, NJ, 2 Jan 1938; d Amarillo, TX, 20 July 1973). American sculptor and painter. He won a scholarship in 1953 to the Art Students League in New York, where he studied in the evenings for the next two years. In 1956 he studied briefly at the Brooklyn Museum School and in the following year began to paint in an Abstract Expressionist style. In 1959 he taught art at the Police Athletic League in New York and had his first one-man show at the Artists Gallery in New York. During a visit to Rome in 1961 Smithson became interested in European history and religion, especially Byzantine art. In his paintings of this period he fused an Abstract Expressionist style with mythological and religious subject-matter, as in Green Chimera with Stigmata (1961; see 1985 exh. cat., pl. 17). He continued to work primarily as a painter until he married the American sculptor Nancy Holt (b 1938) in 1963, but in 1964 he began to write and sculpt, producing what he considered to be his first mature works.

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