Artwork record / rights-aware

Australia

David Smith · 1951

Catalog medium: Painted steel on cinder-block base
Media family: sculpture source interpretation
Collection: The Museum of Modern Art

Physical record

Scale without reproducing the image

Metric: 202 × 274 × 41 cm
Approx. imperial: 6 ft 7.5 in × 8 ft 11.9 in × 1 ft 4.1 in
Width / 170 cm reference: 1.61×
Height / 170 cm reference: 1.19×
Depth / 170 cm reference: 0.24×

Imperial dimensions and 170 cm reference ratios are interface calculations from documented metric dimensions. The diagram uses a bounding-dimension guide only: it does not infer silhouette, occupied volume, mass, or viewing angle.

Image decision: Bundled display blocked by external_reference_only/external_link_only.

View source institution record ↗

Structured relationships

Process, material, form, ideas

Techniques

No structured techniques linked in the foundation corpus.

Materials

Steelmaterial

Structured materials appear only through an explicit mapping relationship in the validated corpus; AEU does not infer normalized materials by parsing the catalog medium text.

Formal properties

No structured formal properties linked in the foundation corpus.

Concepts

No structured concepts linked in the foundation corpus.

Claims / interpretation

Evidence with its type exposed

A source interpretation is not silently rewritten as an uncontested fact. Contested positions remain side by side.

cross media practice

MoMA describes Smith as primarily a sculptor who trained as a painter, worked in the same circles as many Abstract Expressionists, and treated line as “drawing in space.”

Evidence sources (1)

David Smith. Australia. 1951 ↗

Documented path / mapping basis exposed

Follow this object without inventing influence.

This navigator reorganizes relationships already present on the object record. Each link states whether its basis is object identity, an explicit AEU mapping, a rendered graph edge, or date-only navigation.

Object → maker

David Smithartist/date identity lineBasis: Object identity on this record.

Material & process

SteelmaterialBasis: Explicit structured mapping rendered on this object record.

Formal & thematic

No explicit relationship of this type is rendered on the current object record. The navigator does not infer one from visual similarity or biography.

Exhibition, place & history

Place this date on the AEU timeline1951Basis: Object date used for navigation only; not an influence or exhibition claim.

Close Look

Close-looking guideobservation → interpretationBasis: Companion route for this same object record.

Source register

Direct record sources

David Smith. Australia. 1951museum object · authority tier 1 · verified 2026-09-09
Open institutional source ↗