David Smith at Terminal Iron Works, Bolton Landing, New York
Artist/Culture
Dan Budnik
(American, born 1933)
Date1963
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions50.4 x 34 cm (image), 60.6 x 50.8 cm (sheet)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineHeald Foundation Fund
Object number1997.11
Label TextIn the later phase of his career, Dan Budnik produced probing portraits of artists. He was an admired photographer for Life, Sports Illustrated, and Vogue magazines in the early 1960s, when he became one of the first to document the Civil Rights movement.
This photograph documents a visit to the forge of David Smith (1906-1965), one the first sculptors to work with welded metal. He combined elements of Cubism and Surrealism to synthesize a personal mode of Abstract Expressionist sculpture, that he displayed in the fields surrounding his rural studio.
ProvenanceG.W. EinsteinOn View
Not on view
Andreas Feininger
20th Century