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Robert Smithson was one of the titans of the Land Art, or Earthworks, movement, spearheaded in the 1960s by a group of artists undaunted by the mechanics of carving light-filled spaces out of an ...
An exhibition cointinues through April 27. "earth artist" Robert Smithson's pencil and crayon drawing of Island of Sulfur (Dollar Bay) at the Dallas Museum of Art, Thursday, January 16, 2013.
<p>Updated: Nov. 17, 2009</p> <p>The artist Robert Smithson is best known for the "Spiral Jetty," which has lain in the Great Salt Lake since 1970. Born in Passaic, N.J., in 1938, Smithson died at ...
Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty was built by pushing 6,650 tons of earth and basalt into the Great Salt Lake, forming a spiral 1,500 feet long and 15 feet wide. As massive as the earthwork is ...
Robert Smithson was an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1938. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Centre Pompidou Malaga. Numerous key galleries and museums ...
A 1971 drawing of Robert Smithson’s initial plans for a project on Little Fort Island, which he and his wife, Nancy Holt, owned.
The show’s ideal viewer is the Smithson obsessive, who will see just how radically his non-sites and earthworks ruptured not only the history of sculpture but his own juvenilia. Through Jan. 10.
Photography remained a crucial portion of Robert Smithson’s artistic process throughout his life as a Conceptual and Earthworks artist. He used the medium to capture his large-scale projects and ...
Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970), arguably the most famous work of Land art in the world, has been added to the US’s National Register of Historic Places.
Robert Smithson, Sr. Virginia Beach – Robert E. Smithson, Sr., 87, went home to be with the Lord on October 26, 2015. He was a retired U.S. Navy veteran and then worked for 20 years at the No… ...
SMITHSON, ROBERT A.; of Waterford; March 27, 2013; age 91; born January 8, 1922 in Anniston, AL. Son of the late Robert and Hazel Smithson; husband of the late Norma Jean Smithson; father of Willia… ...
Robert Smithson, “Untitled [Pencil writes “less work for mother”/telephone cord spells “hello”/ man on orange blob]” (1963), pencil, crayon, spray paint and marker on paper, 30 x 22 in ...