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Robert Smithson

Passaic, United States · b. 1938 — d. 1973

Painting & Sculpture Drawings & Prints Photography Pop Art Media and Performance 20th Century

Robert Smithson American, 1938-1973

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Born 1938 — Died 1973

1960s

Untitled

Enantiomorphic Chambers, Drawing Y

Untitled

Enantiomorphic Chambers, Drawing Z

+27

1970s

Sketch for Quarry Project: Texas Overflow

Trailer Partially Covered with Asphalt

Trailer Partially Covered with Asphalt

Sketch for Quarry Project: Texas Overflow

Sketch for Quarry Project: Texas Overflow

+28

1990s

Rundown

2000s

Floating Island to Travel Around Manhattan Island

Works

81 artworks

Untitled

, 1962

Enantiomorphic Chambers, Drawing Y

, 1965

Untitled

, 1965

Enantiomorphic Chambers, Drawing Z

, 1965

Mirror Stratum

, 1966

Proposal for a Monument on the Red Sea

, 1966

A heap of Language

, 1966

Untitled (Black Version)

, 1966

Discontinuous Aggregates

Discontinuous Aggregates

, 1966

Alogon #2

, 1966

Ruin of Map of Hipparchus (100 B.C.) in Oswego Lake Quadrangle (1954-55)

, 1967

Fossil Quarry Mirror (Outdoor and Indoor Proposal)

, 1968

Mirror with Rock Salt (Salt Mine and Museum Proposal)

, 1968

Mono Lake

, 1968

Ithaca Mirror Trail, Ithaca, New York

, 1969

Spill, Used Industrial Drum of Titanium White Thinned Out

, 1969

Island of Stairs

Island of Stairs

, 1969

Hanging Bundle of Vines

, 1969

Hanging Roots (From Ceiling)

, 1969

Hanging Tree Limbs

, 1969

Hanging Roots

, 1969

Study for the Sculpture Glass Strata with Mulch and Soil

Study for the Sculpture Glass Strata with Mulch and Soil

, 1969

Earth Map (White Limestone) of the Hypothetical Ice Cap of Gondwanaland Made Near Uxmal Yucatan, April 1969, Hypothetical Continent (Icecap of Gondwanaland), Yucatan, Mexico

, 1969

Corner Mirror with Coral

, 1969

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