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(b Passaic, NJ, 2 Jan 1938; d Amarillo, TX, 20 July 1973). American sculptor and painter. He won a scholarship in 1953 to the Art Students League in New York, where he studied in the evenings for the next two years. In 1956 he studied briefly at the Brooklyn Museum School and in the following year began to paint in an Abstract Expressionist style. In 1959 he taught art at the Police Athletic League in ... (view more)

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(b Passaic, NJ, 2 Jan 1938; d Amarillo, TX, 20 July 1973). American sculptor and painter. He won a scholarship in 1953 to the Art Students League in New York, where he studied in the evenings for the next two years. In 1956 he studied briefly at the Brooklyn Museum School and in the following year began to paint in an Abstract Expressionist style. In 1959 he taught art at the Police Athletic League in New York and had his first one-man show at the Artists Gallery in New York. During a visit to Rome in 1961 Smithson became interested in European history and religion, especially Byzantine art. In his paintings of this period he fused an Abstract Expressionist style with mythological and religious subject-matter, as in Green Chimera with Stigmata (1961; see 1985 exh. cat., pl. 17). He continued to work primarily as a painter until he married the American sculptor Nancy Holt (b 1938) in 1963, but in 1964 he began to write and sculpt, producing what he considered to be his first mature works.  (hide)

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