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- Leda
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The title Leda refers to the Greco-Roman myth about a god who takes the Though Smith was not the first sculptor to use steel, no other artist has Leda is one of Smith’s more poetic early steel constructions. The image of |
Provenance(Sale, The Artist);
Mr. and Mrs. Douglass and Margaret Braman Crockwell, Glens Falls, New York;
(Sale, Margaret Braman Crockwell, 1982); The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Hawkins, 1982, 82.60.
Exhibition History"David Smith: The Formative Years," Edmonton Art Gallery, M. Knoedler & Co., April 24–May 13, 1982.
"David Smith: Painter, Sculptor, Draftsman," Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., November 4, 1982–January 2, 1983.
"A Century of Modern Sculpture 1882-1982," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 14, 1983–January 31, 1984.
"Direction and Diversity: Twentieth Century Art in the Museum Collection,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 21–September 3, 1988.
"Texas Collects Willem de Kooning and His Contemporaries," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 19–May 21, 1995.
"David Smith: A Centennial," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
26 January 26–May 14, 2006.
"American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning and their Circle, 1927–1942," Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, June 9–August 19, 2012; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, September 21–December 30, 2012.
"David Smith: Origins + Innovations," Hauser & Wirth, New York, November 14–December 23, 2017
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