David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy May 28, 2011

David Smith (1906-1965) is widely heralded as the greatest American sculptor of the twentieth century. Smith has generally been presented as the three-dimensional counterpart to the Abstract Expressionist painters and/or as a draftsman in space. The LACMA exhibition will consider geometry throughout Smith's oeuvre, revealing a sculptor whose self-constructed identity as a part of the working class motivated him to adopt the utopian optimism of the constructivist avant-garde.