tony smith kills it

Tony Smith

1912-1980

(Photo by Hans Namuth)

Underrated? Maybe, he's definitely not overrated.

Overlooked? I think so.

I love me some Anthony Peter Smith either way.

I may even own one,

(more on that in another post)

and I'm pretty damn sure I sold one

not knowing what it was.

I wish the guy that bought it had just paid and walked out

the door

rather than announcing he was a Tony Smith scholar

and gloating that he believed the painted piece of 

cardboard I had just sold him

for nothing was a maquette.

Ignorance is bliss,

but it was that little bit of bad news that

made me go out and buy this

book so many years ago.

If I were you, I'd go buy one too....

Tony Smith with "Bennington Structure"

1961

Tony Smith

"Stamos House" under construction

1951

Tony Smith

"Scoppettone House"

(axonometric and plan)

1952

Tony Smith

"Olsen House"

(site plan)

c. 1951

Tony Smith

"Bees Do It"

Wood Model

1970

Tony Smith

"Memphis"

Painted Wood Model

1962-63

Tony Smith

"Generation"

Cast Bronze

1965

Tony Smith, Jane Smith and Tennessee Williams.

(Tennessee was Tony's Best man at his wedding to Jane.)

Tony Smith

c. 1946-47

I want to know what is going on here.

Are those paintings in the background?

Is that a cash register, a sculpture or both?

Tony Smith with Barnett Newman 

and Action Jackson Pollock.

1951

(Photo by Hans Namuth)

Tony Smith with "Bat Cave" model.

1969

Tony Smith

Plywood mock-ups of "Amarylis", "Spitball" 

and "Cigarette"

1966

Great names!

Tony Smith looking pissed or determined,

you choose.

1970

(Photo by Hans Namuth)

Tony Smith with "Cigarette" installed in the garden of

the Museum of Modern Art.

New York

1979

(Photo by Hans Namuth)