The New York Review of Books - USA (2022-05-12)

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DAVID SMITH SCULPTURE

A Catalogue Raisonné, 1932–

Left: Sketchbook 49, p. 83,

1964. Ink on paper, 8 ½ x 5 ½ in.
      (21.6 x 14 cm). The Estate of
      David Smith. Right: Cubi X, 1963.
      Stainless steel, 121 ⅜ × 78 ¾ ×
      24 in. (308.3 × 200 × 61.0 cm).
      Inscribed on top of base: “David
      Smith / April 4 ‘63 / Hi Rebecca,
      Cubi X”. Museum of Modern Art,
      New York. Robert O. Lord Fund
      (717.1968)

I’m not sure I have ever seen a catalogue raisonné as beautiful, as magnificent, as the new publication

on the oeuvre of the great American sculptor David Smith.... Superb, with splendid photographs

and marvelously informative entries... In short, one of the handful of truly great sculptors of the

twentieth century has been given the scholarly monument that he deserves.

— Michael Fried, Bookforum

Christopher Lyon, Editor

Susan J. Cooke, Research Editor

Forewords by Rebecca Smith and Candida Smith

Essays by Michael Brenson, Sarah Hamill,

Christopher Lyon, and Marc-Christian Roussel

Chronology by Tracee Ng

THE ESTATE OF DAVID SMITH

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, NEW HAVEN AND LONDON

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