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11/22/94 11:17 [[telephone icon]] 313 833 2357 DET INST of ARTS    01

To: Grace Serra        

Fact Sheet 11/18/94
                        
accession No: 72.436
classification: Sculpture
artist: Tony Smith
lived: 1912-1980
citizenship: American
birthplace: South Orange, New Jersey, United States, North America
title: Gracehoper 
object date: 1961
medium/technique: Welded steel and paint
medium keys: metal, paint, polychromed, steel, welded

dimensions: 
276 x 264 x 552 in.
701.0 x 670.6 x 1402.1 cm 
23" x 22 x 46"

description: Six monumental steel pieces welded into interlocking geometric sections which are attached to an interior structure of supports. The whole piece is painted black. 

search keys: NONOBJECTIVE, LITERATURE
related works: See accession no 71.110 which is a model of this piece.
department: Twentieth Century Art
geography:(object place), United States, North America
additional info: Registrar, Conservation

credit line: Founders Society Purchase with funds from W. Hawkins Ferry and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford II Fund, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund, Marie and Alex Manoogian Fund and members of the Friends of Modern Art

references: DIA BULLETIN, vol 50, no 2, 1971, pp 18-22,(ill).
DIA BULLETIN, vol 52, no 1, 1973, pp 1, 23, 72, (cover ill).
Ocvirk, O. G. et al., ART FUNDAMENTALS: THEORY AND PRACTICE, Dubuque, IA.: W. C. Brown Co., 1975, fig 224 and back cover, (color ill).
Armstrong T. et al., 200 YEARS OF AMERICAN SCULPTURE, Boston: D. Godine, 1976, fig 321, p 220, (ill).
"DIA Advertising Supplement", DETROIT FREE PRESS, June 4, 1978, p 22, (ill only).
"FAMILY ART GAME", DIA Advertising Supplement, DETRIOT FREE PRESS, May 20, 1979, p 9 (ill).
"FAMILY ART GAME", DIA Advertising Supplement, DETROIT NEWS, April 29, 1984, p 8 (ill).
"FAMILY ART GAME", DIA Advertising Supplement, DETROIT NEWS, April 14, 1985, p 27 (ill).
DIA, 100 MASTERWORKS FROM THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, Hudson Hills Press, Inc, NY, 1985, p 232, p 233 (ill).
Rose, Barbara, AMERICAN ART SINCE 1900, Praeger World of Art Series, New York: Praeger Publishers, Inc., 1975, p 278, fig II-54.
TONY SMITH SELECTED SCULPTURES 1961-1973, Part I, New York: Xavier Fourcade Inc., 1985, (ill). 

Transparency: T1, Full view
35mm color slide: 513888, 11/15/94, Full View
35mm color slide: S4656, Three quarter view, Back left
35mm color slide: S4655, Three quarter view, Front left
35mm color slide: S4654, Do not use
35mm color slide: S4653, Do not use
35mm color slide: S4652, Do not use
35mm color slide: S4651, Do not use
35mm color slide: S4650, Do not use