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Classic Figure III

Artist David Smith American, 1906–1965

Date1945

MediumBronze, mounted on wood base

Dimensions13 3/8 x 6 3/4 x 4 in. (34 x 17.1 x 10.2 cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LineBequest of W. R. Valentiner

Object numberG.65.10.60

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceThe artist; Willard Gallery, New York, N. Y.; [sold or given] to William R. Valentiner, 1946?; bequeathed to NCMA, 1958; received 1965.
Published ReferencesMasterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958 (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1959), cat. no. 206, illus. (b-w) 250, fig. 206.

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums," The Art Quarterly 26 (Summer 1963), listed 277, illus. (b-w) 258.

David Smith, 1906-1965: A Retrospective Exhibition (Cambridge, MA: Fogg Art Museum, 1966), listed in "The Sculpture of David Smith: A Handlist," no. 124 (as Female Figure) and as 479 (as Abstract Figure).

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 6, no. 4 and 7, no. 1 (1966/67?), listed 80, illus. (b-w) fig. 20.

Rosalind E. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné (New York: Garland Pub., 1977), listed no. 172 (as Classic Figure III), illus. (b-w) fig. 172.

North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 17 (1997), listed and illus. (b-w) 95.

Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Buchholz and Willard Galleries, "The Sculpture of David Smith," January 2-26, 1946, no. [ ] (cat. intro by W. R. Valentiner).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958," April 6-May 17, 1959, cat. no. 206, illus. (b-w).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The Legacy of W. R. Valentiner," January 27-March 29, 1998.

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