Artist: Robert Smithson (1938 - 1973)
Nationality: American
Movement: Minimalism
Media: Installation, Land Art
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Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Proposal for a Monument at Anartica [sic], Robert Smithson (United States, New Jersey, Passaic, 1938 - 1973) , 1966, Positive photostat
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Torn photograph from the second stop (rubble). Second mountain of 6 stops on a section, Robert Smithson (United States, New Jersey, Passaic, 1938 - 1973) , 1970, Photolithographic print, torn (4 parts)
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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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Torn Photograph from the Second Stop, Inc. Multiples , 1970
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Torn Photograph from the Second Stop, Inc. Multiples , 1970
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Segment of Torn Photograph from the Second Stop, Inc. Multiples , 1970
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Segment of Torn Photograph from the Second Stop, Inc. Multiples , 1970
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Segment of Torn Photograph from the Second Stop, Inc. Multiples , 1970
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Segment of Torn Photograph from the Second Stop, Inc. Multiples , 1970
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Segment of Torn Photograph from the Second Stop, Inc. Multiples , 1970
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Segment of Torn Photograph from the Second Stop, Inc. Multiples , 1970
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Segment of Torn Photograph from the Second Stop, Inc. Multiples , 1970
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Segment of Torn Photograph from the Second Stop, Inc. Multiples , 1970
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Immobilize Cows, Keith Arnatt (England, born 1930) , Paper
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Christmas Day Sound Project, Keith Arnatt (England, born 1930) , Paper
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Untitled, Keith Arnatt (England, born 1930) , Gelatin-silver print
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Illuminate Erogenous Zones, Keith Arnatt (England, born 1930) , Paper
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Untitled, Keith Arnatt (England, born 1930) , Gelatin-silver print
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Untitled, Keith Arnatt (England, born 1930) , Gelatin-silver print
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Untitled, Keith Arnatt (England, born 1930) , Gelatin-silver print
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Mirror Cube, Keith Arnatt (England, born 1930) , Gelatin-silver print
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Mirror Cube, Keith Arnatt (England, born 1930) , Gelatin-silver print
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Mirror Cube, Keith Arnatt (England, born 1930) , Gelatin-silver print
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Mirror Cube, Keith Arnatt (England, born 1930) , Gelatin-silver print
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The Hole That Makes Itself, Keith Arnatt (England, born 1930) , Gelatin-silver print
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Mirror Cube, Keith Arnatt (England, born 1930) , Gelatin-silver print
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Transposition of Two Stones, Petr Stembera (Czechoslovakia, born 1945) , 1971, Gelatin-silver print
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Liverpool Beach Burial, Keith Arnatt (England, born 1930) , Gelatin-silver print
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Transposition of Two Stones, Petr Stembera (Czechoslovakia, born 1945) , 1971, Gelatin-silver print
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Transposition of Two Stones, Petr Stembera (Czechoslovakia, born 1945) , 1971, Gelatin-silver print
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Transposition of Two Stones, Petr Stembera (Czechoslovakia, born 1945) , 1971, Gelatin-silver print
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Liverpool Beach Burial, Keith Arnatt (England, born 1930) , Gelatin-silver print
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Shit Show or An Experiment in Internal Chemistry, Keith Arnatt (England, born 1930) , Paper
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Earth Plug, Keith Arnatt (England, born 1930) , November 1967, Gelatin-silver print
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Handpieces: Typewriting, Petr Stembera (Czechoslovakia, born 1945) , 1971-1972, Gelatin-silver print
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Handpieces: Typewriting, Petr Stembera (Czechoslovakia, born 1945) , 1971-1972, Gelatin-silver print
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Handpieces: Button’s sewing, Petr Stembera (Czechoslovakia, born 1945) , 1971-1972, Gelatin-silver print
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Handpieces: Button’s sewing, Petr Stembera (Czechoslovakia, born 1945) , 1971-1972, Gelatin-silver print
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Handpieces: Button’s sewing, Petr Stembera (Czechoslovakia, born 1945) , 1971-1972, Gelatin-silver print
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Handpieces: Button’s sewing, Petr Stembera (Czechoslovakia, born 1945) , 1971-1972, Gelatin-silver print
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Handpieces: Button’s sewing, Petr Stembera (Czechoslovakia, born 1945) , 1971-1972, Gelatin-silver print
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Tintern Abbey in the Wye Valley, Keith Arnatt (England, born 1930) , Color postcard collage with paper and typewriting
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Portrait d'Harriet Smithson (1800-1854), femme d'Hector Berlioz ; Portrait de Mme Berlioz (ancien titre) (1ère moitié 19e siècle) by DUBUFE Claude Marie
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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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Robert Hennel Egg Cruet Silver, sterling 1852
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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) steel engraving 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) steel engraving 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) steel engraving 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) steel engraving 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) steel engraving 1829
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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) steel engraving 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) steel engraving 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) steel engraving 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) steel engraving 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) steel engraving 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) steel engraving 1829

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (28)
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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...
Stedelijk Museum: Mapping the Studio: Artists’ Relationships to Their Working Environments
One of the earliest and most crucial moments in the transformation of the studio are Bruce Nauman’s studio films (1967/1968). Nauman’s work clearly manifests the transfiguration of the studio from mythic ‘sanctuary’ to mundane workshop. A similar ...
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...
attitudes - espace d'arts contemporains: Didier Rittener - Storm Breeder
The individual drawings were initially done in graphite on A4 tracing paper, then scanned and patiently reworked on the computer before being printed out and transferred using a trichloroethylene process to long sheets of wallpaper and final...
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 ...
Laura Bartlett Gallery: Cyprien Gaillard: The Lake Arches
Gaillard's form of Land art has developed from within the urban landscape of housing estates and high-rise buildings outwards to the countryside and classical architecture, similar to Robert Smithson‚s gradual move from the suburbs of New Jersey t...
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 ...
PS1 Contemporary Art Center: Time Frame: A Group Exhibition
This continues its exploration via the expanded field of contemporary works by drawing on cinematic and video narratives. Time Frame is the New York premiere of Cory Arcangel's Colors (2005), a 33-day-long version of Dennis Hopper's 1988 film Colo...
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...
Luggage Store: TelAranaTelAranaTelA by ANA T. FERNANDEZ
Critic Yasmine Van Pee writes, ".... Fernandez' works literally embody the arduous, sisyphean tasks of her performances.... "...The in-your-face sexuality of her hyper-femme stage persona, a theatrical stilettoed amazon straddling iron bo...
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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