1977.72 Smith, Willy

Tony Smith was an artist familiar with architecture as well as sculpture; his work incorporates both types of construction. The uncluttered geometry of a work like "Willy" has the force of an architectural building. Both the form of the dark metal tetrahedron and the space it shapes seem to be bent, effortlessly, by some invisible mechanical force. 

Smith_Tony: ULAN: 500028102

New Jersey (state): TGN: 7007565

manufacturing: AAT:  300077527

welding: AAT: 300053958

Subject terms
abstract: AAT: 300108127
angles (geometric concepts): AAT: 300055620
architecture (discipline): AAT: 300054156
geometric abstraction: AAT: 300056509
manufacturing: AAT: 300077527
Minimalism (post-1945 style): AAT: 300065758
modular construction: AAT: 300111604
Postminimalism: AAT: 300112731
public art: AAT: 300056501
public spaces: AAT: 300263422
sculpture garden: AAT: 300008116
sculpture: AAT: 300047090
tetrahedra: AAT: 300068741
welding: AAT: 300053958

September 8, 1978: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, purchased from Droll/Kolbert Gallery, New York, partial gift of the Irvin L. and Meryl P. Levy Endowment Fund [1]

The main source for this provenance is the  Dallas Museum of Fine Arts Receipt of Objects record, dated September 8, 1978, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records object file. Exceptions and supporting documentation are noted. 

[1] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.

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