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Cubi XIII

David Smith, 1906–1965, born Decator, IN; died Bennington, VT; active Bolton Landing, NY

y1969-19

Cubi XIII is part of David Smith's final and most famed series of sculptures. Smith polished the stainless steel so that it would reflect the changing colors of its surroundings, especially when placed outdoors, among trees. Although the burnished surface is constructed of basic geometric shapes, it also reveals a painter's sensibility.

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Object Number

y1969-19

Maker

David Smith

Medium

Stainless steel

Dates

1963

Dimensions

289.6 x 208.6 x 55.2 cm. (114 x 82 1/8 x 21 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

The John B. Putnam Jr. Memorial Collection, Princeton University

Inscription

On base: Cubi XIII David Smith Mar-25 1963

Type

sculpture

Subject

figures (representations), abstraction, circles (plane figures)

Materials

stainless steel

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/602598157

Edward Fry, David Smith (New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1969), cat. no. 94

7993 1969

https://www.jstor.org/stable/775345?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Patricia Elsen and Catherine C. Brawer, "College museum notes", Art journal 30, no. 1 (Autumn, 1970): pp. 54-58+60+62+64+66+68+70+72+74+76-81), p. 56 (illus.)

7946 1970

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/424050176

Sanford C. Reynolds, Jr., John N. Brooks, Jr., Edmund L. Keeley, James M. Markham, and John A. McPhee, the editorial board, "The Putnam sculpture: 20th Century masterpieces give dramatic perspectives to Princeton's familiar vistas", Princeton alumni weekly 70 (Jan. 27, 1970): p. 1214 , 15

677 1970

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8417712

Patrick Joseph Kelleher, Living with Modern Sculpture: the John B. Putnam, Jr., Memorial Collection, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 1982)., cat. no. 19, pp. 108–11

579 1982

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/473987220

Kay Wagenknecht-Harte, Site + Sculpture: The Collaborative Design Process (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1989), fig. 5.02

7994 1989

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34598105

Jane McCarthy and Laurily K. Epstein, A guide to the sculpture parks and gardens of America, (New York, NY: Michael Kesend Pub., 1996).

588 1996

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191755167

Candida N. Smith, Irving Sandler, and Jerry L. Thompson, The Fields of David Smith (Storm King Art Center; London: Thames & Hudson, 1999), p. 126 (illus.)

7944 1999

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57236887

John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 42, fig. 39

420 2004

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/377832754

Karin Dienst, ed., Sculpture of Princeton University: including works from the John B. Putnam Jr. Memorial Collection, (Princeton, NJ: Published by the Office of Communications, in association with the Princeton University Art Museum, 2004)., 2–3, illus.

580 2004