Artist: Robert Smithson (1938 - 1973)
Nationality: American
Movement: Minimalism
Media: Installation, Land Art
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Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Robert Smithson - Terminal 1966 painted steel Des Moines Art Center American
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Robert Smithson - Asphalt on Eroded Cliff 1969 ink and colored chal Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at The University of Oklahoma American
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Robert Smithson - Non Site - Site Uncertain 1968 steel bins and canne The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Robert Smithson - Corner Mirror with Coral 1969 mirrors and coral The Museum of Modern Art American
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Robert Smithson - Non-Site: Line of Wreckage, Bayanne, New Jersey 1968 painted aluminum, br Milwaukee Art Museum American
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Robert Batty, Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Henri - Portrait of Mrs. Robert C. Watts 1926 oil on canvas The Maier Museum of Art American
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Paul Ponce Antoine Robert ( Robert de Seri), Femme Vue en Buste, 1723
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Robert Batty, Kˆnigstein, plate 4 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Quedlinburg, plate 23 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Wernigerode, plate 17 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Trendelburg, plate 46 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Buckeburg, plate 18 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Hohnstein, plate 3 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Dresden, plate 35 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Karlshafen, plate 13 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, The Rostrappe, plate 12 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Gottingen, plate 30 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Hameln, plate 29 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert f. Blum - Studio of Robert F. Blum 1883-84 pastel Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Robert Batty, Ilsenburg, Hartz, plate 50 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Hoxter, on the Weser, plate 52 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, The Castle of Falkenstein, plate 7 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, The Exchange, Copenhagen, plate 53 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, St. Andrew"s, Brunswick, plate 11 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Blaukenburg Hartz, plate 60 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, View from the Pastey, plate 19 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, St. Nicholas, Hamburgh, plate 20 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, The Port, Hamburgh, plate 42 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Dom Kirche, Lubeck, plate 21 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Paul Ponce Antoine Robert ( Robert de Seri), Lot and his Daughters, 17th - 18th century
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Robert Cooper, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 18th - 19th century
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Robert Batty, The Stadt Haus, Bremen, plate 33 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, The Gammel Torv, Copenhagen, plate 54 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Palace of Fredericksborg_Entrance Side, plate 55 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Rocks near the Bastey, Saxony, plate 47 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Stadt Haus, Wernigerode, plate 27 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, The New Market Place, Hamburgh, plate 32 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Village of Oker Hartz, plate 56 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, The Place and Bridge at Munden, plate 36 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (23)
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Vancouver Art Gallery: Robert Smithson in Vancouver: A Fragment of a Greater Fragmentation
Encompassing projects Smithson conceived in Vancouver, as well as work undertaken before and after his visits to the city, the exhibition will include drawings, photographs, sculpture, film and archival material. IMAGE
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Witte de With Center for Contemportary Art: Alison and Peter Smithson: From the House of the Future to a House of Today
Their polemics and designs - in which they focused on the burgeoning consumer society and the role of urban planning - laid the foundations for New Brutalism and the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. A central concern for the Smithsons was the desig...
Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier: Robert Smithson: Films, Writings, Drawings
Unlike other Land Art artists, Smithson did not want to confine himself to earth works. Apart from the fact that his landscape works are difficult to get at or existed only for a short period of time, media such as film, video, text and photograph...
Dia Center for the Arts: Gift of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty
In 1970 gallerist and art patron Virginia Dwan provided Smithson with the funds needed to construct Spiral Jetty. Using black basalt rocks and earth from the s...
Union: Sam Durant
Durant will present a major work entitled Upside Down: Pastoral Scene. The installation traces a variety of links and connections both within musical compositions and through the multiple symbolic meanings of the tree in American culture and histo...
Art Gallery of Ontario: Take a New Look at Contemporary Art
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Art Gallery of Ontario: Take a New Look at Contemporary Art
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Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: Sam Durant: MATRIX 147
Recent works have referred to the four deaths at the Rolling Stones concert at Altamont in 1969; a Robert Smithson earthwork created on the Kent State University Campus in 1970, a few months before four students, protesting the war in Cambodia, we...
Dia:Beacon: Agnes Martin: Unknown Territory
Shown in the diffused natural light of Dia's galleries, this exhibition makes available classic works rarely seen due to their fragility and rarity. Closing November 7, 2005, "unknown territory" will be followed in December 2005 by an installation...
Frick Art and Historical Center: INTERNATIONALLY-ACCLAIMED CAMERA ARTIST VIK MUNIZ REMAKES HISTORY
While at the Frick, Mr. Muniz became fascinated by the concepts, histories, and collections contained in and around Clayton, the restored nineteenth-century estate of industrialist and art collector ...
Tacoma Art Museum: Andy Goldsworthy: Mountain and Coast Autumn into Winter
Goldsworthy constructs his stunning creations in the landscape from materials found in the environment – for example, a stitched chain of vividly red maple leaves, placed in a long curving line threaded around rocks in a creek bed. He intends for ...
Guggenheim Museum: Moving Pictures: Woork in Photography, Film, and Video
The exhibition fills the museum’s entire Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda, Thannhauser gallery 4, and Annex gallery 5. Moving Pictures is on view from June 28, 2002 to January 12, 2003. This exhibition is sponsored by Delta Airlines. During the la...
Hayward Gallery: Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic
Over 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations and films made by artists from the 1920s to the early 1980s have been brought together by the exhibition’s curator Guy Brett. Among the seminal works in the show are Calder’s early mobiles, D...
Queens Museum of Art: Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection
This landmark exhibition will present a wondrous display of 120 contemporary masterpieces, including: a powerful thirty-eight foot mural by Sam Francis; a soaring mobile by Alexander Calder; and a landmark video installation by Nam Jun...
Smithsonian, National Museum of American Art and its Rewick Gallery: 11th Annual Eldredge Prize Awarded for New Interpretation of 1960s American Art
Jones argues that the artists she examines identified closely with postwar industry and corporate culture. Drawing from extensive interviews with artists and their assistants, Jones presents the idea that much of the major work of the 1960s...
Sert Gallery, Harvard University Art Museums: Tadashi Kawamata: Boston Project, Plan in Progress
Bringing Kawamata to the Fogg Art Museum to work closely with students, faculty, and curators is a fabulous opportunity for everyone involved. He is a challenging and intelligent artist, well known for his generous collaborations with students. W...
Queens Museum of Art: Joan Jonas: Five Works
Joan Jonas (b. 1936) is one of the most important women artists to emerge from the late 1960s and 1970s. Working in New York as a sculptor, by 1968 she moved into what was then considered new territory – mixing performance with props and mediated ...
Arizona State University Art Museum: SITES AROUND THE CITY: ART AND ENVIRONMENT
Citywide project committee is co-managed by Heather Sealy Lineberry and Felicie Regnier. EXHIBITION AT THE ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM:
The ASU Art Museum's exhibition and catalogue will present the most challenging contemp...
Museum of Contemporary Art: en pleine terre: Wandering between Landscape and Art, Spiral Jetty and Potsdamer Schrebergaerten
Photographs and a film on the making of the Spiral Jetty, conceived with great care by Robert Smith-son, testify to the realisation of a mind-boggling spiral of stones laid out in the salt lake, which the artist saw as the expression of the irra...
Wexner Center for the Arts: As Painting: Division and Displacement
As painting Organized by the Wexner Center and guest curated by OSU professors Philip Armstrong (Division of Comparative Studies), Laura Lisbon (Department of Art), and Stephen Melville (Department of History of Art), the wide-ranging exhibiti...
Palazzo Ducale: Arti and Architettura: 1900 - 2000
A utopian adventure, encroaching sometimes into “archisculpture”, whose protagonists – artists and architects from Kazimir Malevich to Vladmir Tatlin, from Antonio Sant'Elia to Giuseppe Terragni, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Piet Mondrian, f...
photo L.A.: The 10th Los Angeles Photographic Print Exposition
This is an unparalleled opportunity for collectors, curators and the curious to view thousands of images from all over the world. Over 6000 people attended last year...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture
Kudos to Holly E. Hughes for curating a show so startling, so slyly subversive, it worms its way into your skin before you even realize it. It’s one of the best I’ve ever seen. Here is body as locus of the commercial and the contemplative; as s...

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