David Smith: Medals for Dishonor examines a major, though little-known, body of work by one of America’s most distinguished sculptors. It depicts the entire series of fifteen Medals for Dishonor along with more than 91 related works ranging in date from 1936 to 1943, including drawings, sketchbooks, paintings, collages, and several preliminary casts. The Medals marked a turning point in Smith's art, signaling a general aesthetic shift from the formative work of the 1930s to the deeply personal and formally articulated work of the late 1940s, which was part of the movement that became known as Abstract Expressionism.
Texts by: Dore Ashton, Michael Brenson, Matthew Marks, David Smith
Featured artists: David Smith
Ashton, Dore and Michael Brenson, David Smith: Medals for Dishonor. Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, 1997. 87 pages. ISBN 0-916365-47-6.
