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...National Gallery, the eminence of Sculptor David Smith...
...exhibition of the work of David Smith at the National Gallery in Washington, which opened last November and will run until late April, is the most important show by an American sculptor in years. Smith died in 1965, when his pickup truck spun off a country road near his studio in Bolton Landing, an isolated little town in the Adirondacks. He was 58 and in the prime of his sculptural career. Only Jackson Pollock's fatal car crash nine years earlier subtracted so much, so soon, from American art. No sculptor of similar talent has appeared in America since...
...getting in the way. But Smith's ponderous iron wagons, bright stainless-steel portals and gesturing arabesques of rusty or painted metal survive against it in all their magnificent variety. This is not a complete retrospective. It concentrates on the years of Smith's maturity as a sculptor, starting in 1951 with the Agricola series-"drawings in air" made, as often as not, from abandoned farm implements he collected around Bolton Landing-and finishing with the Cubis, a series incomplete at his death. In those 14 years, one may say without exaggeration, Smith explored the possibilities of welded...
...recalled. "I played there just like I played in nature, on hills and creeks." Thousands of youngsters, no doubt, could say the same; but art grows out of other art, and what opened the sluices and let Smith's childhood associations flow into a career as a sculptor was seeing photos, not the originals, of the metal sculpture of Picasso and his fellow Spaniard, González, in an art magazine published in the early '30s. Smith had been a painting student in New York City. Working iron, he saw, might have the directness of painting...
EXPECTING. Meryl Streep, 33, seraphic star whose riveting performance as the heroine of Sophie's Choice last month won her best actress of 1982 honors from the New York Film Critics Circle, and her husband, Sculptor Don Gummer, 36; their second child...