Featured: David Smith:
Bolton Landing
Storm King Art Center

In this online feature, archival photographs and text illuminate historical touch points between Smith’s singular engagement with sculpture and landscape, and his enduring legacy at Storm King. For a list of sculptures by David Smith in Storm King’s collection, please visit our web page on the artist.

David Smith looking at the south field of his property, Bolton Landing, NY, 1963

Sculpture group, Bolton Landing, NY, 1963

Bolton Landing Sculpture Garden

<em>Portrait of a Painter</em> (1954) and<em> Sitting Printer</em> (1954-55), Bolton Landing Dock, Lake George, NY, c. 1956

David Smith welding <em>March Sentinel</em> (1961), Bolton Landing, New York. 1961

David Smith working on <em>Sitting Printer </em>(1954-55), Bolton Landing, NY, c. 1955

Sculpture group in the upper field of Smith’s property at Bolton Landing, NY, c. 1967

Storm King Art Center, 1968<br />
David Smith, <em>XI Books III Apples, </em>1959<br />
David Smith, <em>The Sitting Printer</em>, 1954-55<br />
David Smith, <em>Three Ovals Soar, </em>1960<br />
David Smith, <em>Becca,</em> 1964 <br />
David Smith, <em>The Iron Woman, </em>1954-58 (installation view, 1968)

David Smith, <em>Albany I</em>, 1959 (studio visit, 1967)

Elements for <em>Albany I</em> (1959) and other sculptures laid out for assembly on the floor of David Smith's workshop in Bolton Landing, NY, c. 1959

David Smith, <em>Albany I</em>, 1959 (installation view, 2012)

<em>Becca </em>(1964) and other sculptures in the snow, Bolton Landing, NY, 1964

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David Smith, <em>Becca</em>, 1964 (studio visit, 1966)

David Smith, <em>Becca</em>, 1964 (installation view, 2009)

David Smith. Sketchbook 53, p. 163. c. 1954–62, featuring a sketch of <em>Five Units Equal</em> (1956). Storm King Art Center, donated by Gloria Gil.

David Smith overseeing the placement of <em>Five Units Equal </em>(1956) onto a base in his workshop at Bolton Landing, 1956

<em>Three Ovals Soar</em> (1960) in David Smith’s workshop, Bolton Landing, NY, 1960

David Smith,<em> Zig II</em>, <em>XI Books III Apples</em>, and <em>Three Ovals Soar</em> (studio visit, 1966)

<em>25 Planes </em>(1958) and <em>XI Books III Apples</em> (1959) in the south field at Bolton Landing, NY, 1959

<em>XI Books III Apples</em> (1959), Bolton Landing, NY, c. 1959

David Smith, <em>XI Books III Apples</em>, 1959 (installation view, 2017)

<em>Personage of May</em> (1957), Bolton Landing, NY, c. 1957

<em>Portrait of a Lady Painter </em>(1956-57), Bolton Landing, NY, c. 1960

<em>Portrait of a Lady Painter</em> (1956-57), Bolton Landing, NY, c. 1960

David Smith, <em>Portrait of a Lady Painter</em>, 1954/1956–57 (studio visit, 1967)

David Smith, <em>Portrait of a Lady Painter</em>, 1954/ 1956-57 (installation view, 2009)

<em>Raven V</em> (1959) in the snow at Bolton Landing, NY, c. 1959

Bolton Landing, NY, 1964

<em>Study in Arcs</em> (1957), Bolton Landing, NY, c. 1964

David Smith,<em> Study in Arcs</em>, 1957 (installation view, 2012)

Sculpture group in the lower field, Bolton Landing, NY, 1961

<em>Tanktotem VII </em>(1960), Bolton Landing, NY, c. 1960

<em>Cubi XXI </em>(1964), Bolton Landing, NY, c. 1964

<em>Cubi XXI </em>(1964), Bolton Landing, NY, c. 1964

<em>Cubi XXI </em>(1964), Bolton Landing, NY, c. 1964

<em>Cubi XXI </em>(1964), Bolton Landing, NY, c. 1964

<em>Cubi XXI </em>(1964), Bolton Landing, NY, c. 1964

<em>Cubi XXI </em>(1964), Bolton Landing, NY, c. 1964

<em>Cubi XXI </em>(1964), Bolton Landing, NY, c. 1964

<em>Cubi XXI </em>(1964), Bolton Landing, NY, c. 1964

<em>Cubi XXI </em>(1964), Bolton Landing, NY, c. 1964

<em>Cubi XXI </em>(1964), Bolton Landing, NY, c. 1964

<em>Cubi XXI </em>(1964), Bolton Landing, NY, c. 1964

<em>Cubi XXI </em>(1964), Bolton Landing, NY, c. 1964

<em>Cubi XXI </em>(1964), Bolton Landing, NY, c. 1964