Base for Growing Forms / David Smith

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Accession Number: 1980/1.213B
Title: Base for Growing Forms
Artist: David Smith
Artist Nationality: American
Artist Life Dates: 1906 - 1965
Medium and Support: wood base
Object Creation Date: 1939
Object Creation Place: North and Central America (continent); United States (nation)
Creation Place 1: North and Central America (continent)
Creation Place 2: United States (nation)
Credit Line: Bequest of Charles E. Palmer in honor of Jean Paul Slusser
Inscription: Inscribed right side, c.: David Smith
Dimensions: 105 cm x 33 cm x 33 cm (41 5/16 in. x 13 in. x 13 in.)
Century: 20th century
Primary Object Classification: Sculpture
Primary Object Type: carving
Physical Description: A column of wood carved by turning into a stack of fat discs.
Subject Matter: base for the sculpture, Growing Forms.
Primary Keywords: abstraction; surrealism
Secondary Keywords: genres; modern and contemporary art; movement
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 361 x 1285
File Size: 22 KB
Record: 1980/1.213B
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1980-sl-1.213b/1980_1.213.jpg

In public portfolios: 244 UMMA objects (100); Art of interest to Judaic Studies (500); European primitivisms (54)

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Full citation: "Base for Growing Forms; David Smith." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1980-sl-1.213b/1980_1.213.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.