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 Most exhibitions in: |
| Country |
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| USA | 83 |
| Germany | 12 |
| United Kingdom | 9 |
| Spain | 4 |
| France | 3 |
| Most exhibitions held at: |
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Gagosian Gallery - Madison Avenue, USA |
6 |
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Washburn Gallery, USA |
6 |
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Documenta, Germany |
4 |
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Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, USA |
4 |
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American Contemporary Art Gallery, Germany |
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Biography: 
9.3.1906 Born in Decatur, IN (US)
Smith began studying painting from the late 20's. In 1931 he turned to sculpture and started to apply the technique of bonding different metals, a skill he acquired from his part-time work in a factory. With his abstract positioning of different metals such as steel, and his use of used farm equipment, Smith developed a unique style of sculpture. The choice of materials, bonding methods, and his application of three-dimensional materials onto a two-dimensional surface made him a pioneer in the field of contemporary art. At the same time, he continued to paint and considered drawing to be much more than merely preparation for his sculpture. A contemporary of Motherwell and Pollock, Smith is often considered an abstract expressionist. He died in an auto accident in Vermont.
1965 Died in Bennington, VT (US)
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Public exhibitions 115
until 22.11.
Solo shows 34
2008
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| David Smith - Gagosian Gallery - Madison Avenue, New York City, NY |
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| David Smith - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
2007
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| Focus - David Smith - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
2006
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| David Smith - Personage - Gagosian Gallery - Britannia Street, London (England) |
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| David Smith - A Centennial - Tate Modern, London (England) |
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| David Smith - American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich |
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| David Smith - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| David Smith - Gagosian Gallery - 24th Street, New York City, NY |
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| David Smith - A Centennial - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY |
2005
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| David Smith: Paintings and Drawings 1955-1958 - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
2004
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| David Smith. Dibuixos - IVAM - Institut Valenciŕ d'Art Modern, Valencia |
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| David Smith - Related Clues - Gagosian Gallery - 24th Street, New York City, NY |
2003
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| David Smith - American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich |
2001
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| David Smith - Two into Three Dimensions - Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL |
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| David Smith - - Gagosian Gallery - Heddon Street (closed), London (England) (closed) |
2000
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| David Smith: Two Into Three Dimensions - Newcomb Art Gallery , New Orleans, LA |
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| David Smith - The Last Nudes - Gagosian Gallery - Madison Avenue, New York City, NY |
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| David Smith on the Roof - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| David Smith - The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Portland, OR |
1999
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| David Smith - The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA |
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| David Smith: Medals for Dishonor - Boston University Art Gallery - BUAG, Boston, MA |
1998
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| David Smith - Stop/Action - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL |
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| David Smith - - Gagosian Gallery - Soho (closed), London (England) (closed) |
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| David Smith - Photographs 1931-1965 - Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY |
1995
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| David Smith: This work is my identity - Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA |
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| David Smith: The Inspiration of Music - Washburn Gallery, New York City, NY |
1994
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| David Smith: Medals for Dishonor 1937-1940 - Matthew Marks Gallery - 1018 Madison Avenue (closed), New York City, NY |
1990
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| David Smith: Painting into Sculpture - Washburn Gallery, New York City, NY |
1987
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| David Smith - Washburn Gallery, New York City, NY |
1986
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| David Smith - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
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| The Drawings of David Smith - The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX |
1969
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| David Smith - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1957
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| David Smith - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
Group shows 80
2009
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| 1945-1949 Repartir ŕ zéro, comme si la peinture n’avait jamais existé - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon |
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| Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976 - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| Marble - Gagosian Gallery - Madison Avenue, New York City, NY |
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| The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia: 1860-1989 - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY |
2008
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| Mergers and Acquisitions - Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA |
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| Abstract Expressionism - A World Elsewhere - Haunch of Venison - New York, New York City, NY |
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| SAND: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor - Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY |
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| New York School - Robert Sandelson, London (England) |
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| Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976 - The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY |
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| Degas to Diebenkorn: The Phillips Collects - The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
2007
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| Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s - Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX |
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| Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in The Metropolitan Museum - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Picasso and American Art - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Nineteen Going on Twenty: Recent Acquisitions from the Collection of the Contemporary Museum - The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI |
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| Breaking the Mold: Selections from the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 1961-1968 - Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK |
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| Picasso and American Art - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
2006
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| Body Politics: Figurative Prints and Drawings from Schiele to De Kooning - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| The Picasso Influence - Washburn Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Picasso and American Art - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture - 60 Years - Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME |
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| American Matrix: Contemporary Directions for the Harn Museum Collection Part II - Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL |
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| Great American Drawings - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| "New York School" - American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich |
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| Selections from the Collection - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| Drawings - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
2005
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| Ecole de New York - Expressionnisme Abstrait - oeuvres sur papier - MAMAC - Musee d´Art Moderne et d`Art Contemporain Nice, Nice |
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| American Matrix: Contemporary Directions for the Harn Museum Collection Part 1 - Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL |
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| Early Work - Washburn Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Surrealism USA - Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ |
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| Villa America - American Moderns - 1900–1950 - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
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| Paint On Metal - Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ |
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| David Smith, Alexander Calder: Large Scale Works - Gagosian Gallery - 24th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Selected Works from the Sterling Collection - The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI |
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| "Out of Site - Selections from the Marsha S. Glazer Collection." - Art Museum at U.C. Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA |
2004
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| Featuring - Susan Inglett Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Attraversare Genova - Percorsi e linguaggi internazionali del contemporaneo - Palazzo Ducale, Genoa |
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| West to Wesselmann - Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ |
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| XIX & XX Century Master Paintings and Sculptures - Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| Selection of the Gallery - American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich |
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| Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo |
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| Das MoMA in Berlin. Meisterwerke aus dem Museum of Modern Art, New York - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Picasso to Thiebaud - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
2003
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| Black White - Danese, New York City, NY |
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| Kemper Museum Small Sculptures - Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO |
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| El Expresionismo Abstracto Americano en las Colecciones Espańolas - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia |
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| The Heroic Century: The Museum of Modern Art Masterpieces, 200 Paintings & Sculp - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
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| 20th Century Sculpture - Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York City, NY |
2002
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| AAA, AMA, WPA and THE TEN One Mural, Paintings, Works on Paper from the 1930s-19 - Washburn Gallery, New York City, NY |
2001
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| The Human Figure in Modern Sculpture - Rodin Gallery, Seoul |
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| Works on Paper - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
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| The Global Guggenheim - Selections from the Extended Collection - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY |
2000
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| KölnSkulptur 2 - Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne |
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| Group Show - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Expresionismo Abstracto - Fundación Juan March, Madrid |
1999
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| The Eye of the Collector - Works from the Lipman Collection of American Art - ASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ |
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| Carved, Modeled, Assembled, Welded, Drawn - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
1998
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| America Draws - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA |
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| The New York School - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Portraits Obscured - Gagosian Gallery - Madison Avenue, New York City, NY |
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| Summer Group Show - - Gagosian Gallery - Soho (closed), London (England) (closed) |
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| The New York School - Gagosian Gallery - Madison Avenue, New York City, NY |
1996
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| Masters of American Sculpture - Gagosian Gallery - Madison Avenue, New York City, NY |
1993
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| Modern Masters and the Figure: Picasso to de Kooning - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
1991
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| 10 Sculptors of the New York School - Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1984
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| Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America 1927-1944 - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America 1927-1944 - The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America 1927-1944 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
1983
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| Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America 1927-1944 - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA |
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| American Still Life: 1945–1983 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1981
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| Medio Siglo de Escultura: 1900-1945 - Fundación Juan March, Madrid |
1977
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| documenta 6 - Documenta, Kassel |
1968
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| documenta 4 - Documenta, Kassel |
1964
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| documenta 3 - Documenta, Kassel |
1962
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| Geometric abstraction in America : March - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
1959
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| documenta 2 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| The New American Painting - Tate Britain, London (England) |
1958
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| Personal Contacts: A Decade of Contemporary Drawings, 1948–1958 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1957
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| Irons in the Fire: An Exhibition of Metal Sculpture - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1956
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| Monumentality in Modern Sculpture - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
| Dealer Directory 13 |
France
United Kingdom
| | Gagosian Gallery - Britannia Street, London (England)
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USA
| | Gagosian Gallery - Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills, CA
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| | Richard Gray Gallery - Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York City, NY
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| | Gagosian Gallery - 24th Street, New York City, NY
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| | Gagosian Gallery - Madison Avenue, New York City, NY
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| | Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
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| | Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Tobey Fine Arts, New York City, NY
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| | Washburn Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Pascal de Sarthe Fine Art, Paradise Valley, AZ
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| | Susan Conway Gallery, Washington, DC
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Public collections 42
Australia
| | Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
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Japan
| | Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba
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| | Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
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Spain
| | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid
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United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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| | Tate Modern, London (England)
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USA
| | Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
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| | UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
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| | The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
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| | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA
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| | MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
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| | Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX
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| | The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
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| | Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
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| | MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
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| | Indianapolis Museum of Art - IMA, Indianapolis, IN
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| | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
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| | The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
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| | Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
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| | UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
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| | Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
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| | Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
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| | Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
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| | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
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| | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
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| | Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
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| | Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
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| | Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
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| | Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
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| | San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
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| | UAMA - The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
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| | Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY
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| | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
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| | Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC
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| | The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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| | Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
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