<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, “Seventh Mirror Displacement,” detail from Yucatan Mirror Displacements (1969), nine chromogenic prints from original 126 format chromogenic slides, 24 x 24 inches (60.96 x 60 ...

Robert Smithson’s groundbreaking land artwork Spiral Jetty (1970) has at last entered America’s National Register of Historic Places, joining the the likes of Ocmulgee Mounds National ...

Robert Smithson created Spiral Jetty on Utah's Great Salt Lake in 1970. Dia Art Foundation / Nancy Holt / Holt/Smithson Foundation Jutting from the shoreline of Utah’s Great Salt Lake is an ...

Denney Fifield/Shutterstock In the most famous pictures of Robert Smithson’s monumental earthwork “Spiral Jetty”, the craggy coil of black basalt and limestone protrudes through the surface ...

The artist and writer Robert Smithson, famous for his austere and monumental “Spiral Jetty” unfurling in Utah’s Great Salt Lake, died at 35 in a plane crash in 1973. Teresita Fernández was ...

Robert Smithson was his parents’ second child, and his life revolved around the older brother he never met, Harold Smithson, who died of leukemia in 1936 at age 9, before Robert was born.

Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” (1970), Great Salt Lake, Utah, 2019 (photo by Victoria Sambunaris) ...