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intuition as by intellect. Sometimes his insights were York city to found a studio on a remote upstate moun-
instantaneous, but often they required long gestation. tainside.
They required a kind of contemplation, a self-knowledge, Smith wanted to work large; the scale of his imagination
that is possible only perhaps when a man is long alone. and of his energy was large. He did not reduce his con-

Knowing that he worked by allowing things to work on ceptions to the possibilities and career conveniences of a
him—the necessity of conforming to an inner rhythm— New York studio, or to the amiabilities of life in the city
was in part what took him out of the art world of New he loved. Instead, he made work determine how and

Left
Saw head 1933
Painted steel
Height 17+ in,
Estate of the artist
Photo: David Smith
Right
Home of the welder 1945
Bronze
21 x 17+ x 14 in.
Below left
Portrait of the eagle's keeper
1948-9
Bronze
Height 39 1/4 in.
Coll: Miss Helen Franken-
thaler, New York

Below centre
Zig 4 1961
Painted steel
Height 94+ in.
Below right
Sentinel 3 1957
Painted steel
Height 83 1/4 in.