Enters Ohio University, Athens for one year and takes art courses.

Summer - works in South Bend, Indiana, as a welder and riveter at Studebaker plant.

Fall - registers as a special student in Notre Dame University.

Works for banking agency of Studebaker Finance Department, which transfers him to Morris Plan Bank in Washington, D.C.

Moves to Washington, D.C. Attends two poetry classes at George Washington University.

Is Transferred to New York City to work for Industrial Acceptance Corporation.

Lives in a rooming house at 417 West 118th Street, where he meets Dorothy Dehner, a student at the Art Students League.

Begins evening classes at the Art Students League with Richard Lahey.

Fall - becomes full-time student at the Art Students League until 1932.

Studies with Jan Matulka, Allen Lewis, John Sloan and Kimon Nicolaides; also makes prints.

December 24 - marries Dorothy Dehner at City Hall. Moves to Greenwich Village.

Spring - works as a seaman on an oil tanker going from Philadelphia to San Pedro, CA.

Fall - moves to Flatbush, Brooklyn.

Visits artists Thomas and Weber Furlongs’s farm at Bolton Landing near Lake George.

Visits the Furlongs for one month. Buys ’Old Fox Farm’ in Bolton Landing.

December - makes illustrations for The Sportsman Pilot (until 1931).

Meets the artist John Graham about this time. Works free-lance for Tennis magazine on layouts (until 1931).

March - included in first group exhibition, Fourth Annual Exhibition of American Block Prints, Print Club of Philadelphia.

Paints in abstract Surrealist style. Sees reproductions of Picasso’s and Gonzalez’s welded - metal sculpture in Cahiers dÕart.

Studies in private class with Matulka.

August - goes to Bolton Landing.

October - goes to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands for eight months.

Makes constructions of wood, coral, and wire.

June - returns to New York, then to Bolton Landing.

Moves to Brooklyn Heights.

Buys welding outfit and air-reduction oxyacetylene torch.

Makes carved wood sculptures; makes first all-metal sculptures.

Spring and summer - works at Bolton Landing making sculptures and welding.

Makes series of welded and painted Heads.

Through John Graham gets job making bases for Frank Crowninshield’s collection of African sculpture, which he helps catalog.

Rents studio space at a machine shop called Terminal Iron Works in Brooklyn (until 1940).

March 22 - assigned to Technical Division of Civil Works Administration, Public Works of Art Project, New York, mural painting project 89.

John Graham gives him Head, by GonzŒlez.

October - becomes member of Artists’ Committee for Action for the Municipal Art Gallery and Center.

Spring - signs a call for an American Artists Congress to be held February 1936.

October - takes first trip to Europe. Spends one month in Paris, where John Graham is buying African sculpture;

makes etchings in Stanley Hayter’s studio. Spends winter in Greece.

Travels through Europe. Takes Russian steamer to Leningrad on twenty-one day tour to Soviet Union.

July 4 - returns to New York. Goes to Bolton Landing.

Fall - returns to New York. Makes first modeled wax piece for bronze castings about this time.

February - assigned to Works Project Administration Federal Arts Project (until August 1939).

September 28 - joins American Abstract Artists. Works on Medals for Dishonor series (until 1940). Works on oxyacetylene-welded sculpture.

Makes sculptures for the WPA/FAP. Joins the Artists Union, Local 60, about this time.

January - first solo exhibition, including both drawings and sculpture, opens at Marian Willard’s East River Gallery.

Summer - works at Bolton Landing; makes lost-wax bronzes. Makes balsa sculpture for the WPA/FAP.

Joins Sculpture Division of WPA. Joins the Sculpture Guild about this time.

Commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art to make andirons and fireplace tools for the museum’s penthouse.

August 4 - father dies, Smith makes bronze plaque for his headstone.

Smith’s work included in exhibition at New York World’s Fair.

Spring - moves to Bolton Landing permanently and names his studio there Terminal Iron Works.

Works as machinist in Glen Falls. Lectures at United American Artists, New York

Studies welding at a wartime government school in Warrensburg, New York.

Lives in Schenectady, New York. Studies welding at Union College.

Works nights for the American Locomotive Company assembling tanks and locomotives (until 1944); is rated a first class welder.

Joins the United Steelworkers of America, Local 2054, about this time; is rated first-class armor plate welder by army ordinance.

Returns to Bolton Landing on weekends. Works half-days at Harrington and Mallery, marble and granite workers, Saratoga.

March - classified 4-F by the United States Army.

Quits job in Schenectady and moves back to Bolton Landing. Works on studio and design of new house; finished studio workshop about this time.

Begins Spectres series.

Teaches art at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York (until 1950). Finished building new house at Bolton Landing.

Designs three prize medals for the Art News National Amateur Painters Competition.

Designs bronze medal for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, New York.

With Dorothy Dehner attends all Bolton Landing town meetings, then runs unsuccessfully for Justice of the Peace.

April - receives Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (renewed 1951). Separates from Dorothy Dehner.

Meets Helen Frankenthaler; meets Kenneth Noland.

December 24 - he and Dorothy Dehner are divorced. Begins Tanktotem series.

January - Artnews votes Smith’s 1952 exhibition one of the ten best shows of the year.

April 6 - marries Jean Freas of Washington D.C. Continues to lecture at conferences and colleges.

April 4 - daughter Eve Athena Allen Katherine Rebecca is born.

Makes silver sculpture for Towle Silversmiths, Newburyport, MA, for American Federation of Arts exhibition Sculpture in Silver from Islands in Time.

June - included in XXVII Venice Biennale.

September-June 1955 - is Visiting Professor, Department of Fine Arts, at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Visits Europe as delegate to UNESCO’s First International Congress of Plastic Arts, Venice; travels in France and Italy.

Teaches at University of Mississippi, Oxford, for one semester.

August 12 - daughter Candida Kore Nicolina Rawley Hellene is born.

Begins making stencil drawings on paper.

Commissioned by Art Institute of Chicago to design Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Logan Medal.

June - included in XXIX Venice Biennale.

Begins to make stainless steel sculptures.

September - wins prize at V Bienal de Sao Paulo. Begins Albany series.

Begins Zig series.

He and Jean Freas are divorced.

October - refuses to accept third prize at Carnegie Institute.

May through July - goes to Voltri, near Genoa, Italy, to make sculpture for the Fourth Festival of two Worlds at Spoleto.

Makes twenty-seven works in thirty days.

October - begins Circle series.

December-March 1963 - makes Voltri-Bolton series of twenty-five works from machine parts shipped from Italy.

Begins stainless steel Cubi series.

September-October - makes small painted Menands.

Receives Creative Arts Award from Brandeis University.

Interview with Frank O’Hara on WNTD-TV: David Smith: Welding Master of Bolton Landing.

Exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania: David Smith: Sculpture and Drawings.

February - appointed member of National Council on the Arts.

May 23 - dies following an automobile accident near Bennington, Vermont.

David Smith: A Memorial Exhibition - Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

David Smith 1906 - 1965, traveling exhibition, Rijksmuseum Kršller-MŸller, The Netherlands, Tate Gallery, London, Kunsthalle Basel,

Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisberg

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA: David Smith 1906-1965: A Retrospective Exhibition

Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY, Sculpture by David Smith in the Storm King Art Center Collection, 1971.

Knoedler Contemporary Art, New York, David Smith: Drawings, Oct 13-Nov 3.

The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, David Smith of Bolton Landing: Sculpture and Drawings, July 1-Sept 30.

Knoedler Contemporary Art, New York, David Smith (1912-1965), Oct 5-26.

University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Albany, Dan Budnik: The Terminal Iron Works, Photographs of His Friend David Smith, 1962/1963,

Oct 13-Nov 17.-(Circulating exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts; traveled to: University of Texas at Austin; Rockland Community College,

Suffern, NY; Center for Music, Drama and Art, Lake Placid, NY; Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY;

Charles W. Bowers Memorial Museum, Santa Ana, CA.)

Knoedler Contemporary Art, New York, David Smith: Small Sculptures, Mar 16-Apr 7.

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Graphische Sammlung, Stuttgart, David Smith: Zeichnungen [David Smith: Drawing], Jan-29 February.

(Traveled to Nationalgalerie Berlin Staatl. Museen PreusB. Kulterbesitz; Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum der Stadt Duisburg.)Ê

Knoedler Contemporary Art, New York, David Smith: Paintings, Apr 24-May 13.

Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY, David Smith Exhibition, May 12-Oct 31.Ê

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA: David Smith: Sculpture, Drawings and Paintings.

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: David Smith: The Drawings.

Serpentine Gallery, London: David Smith: Sculpture and Drawings.

Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta: David Smith, The Formative Years: Sculptures and Drawings from the 1930s and 1940s.

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, David Smith: Workbook Drawings for Sculpture (1954-1964), Apr 28-Aug 21.

Arts Club of Chicago, David Smith: Spray Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, June 1-30.

Washburn Gallery, New York, David Smith: Paintings from 1930-1947, Sept 20-Oct 30.

Jeffrey Hoffeld & Co., Inc, New York, David Smith: Drawings for Sculpture, 1954-1960, Jan 17-Aug 25. Ê

The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ,

Dorothy Dehner/David Smith: Their Decades of Search and Fulfillment, Jan 15-Mar 4.

(Traveled to Skidmore College Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY, Apr 19-May 13.)

Nielson Gallery, Boston, David Smith: Selected Drawings, 1946-1960, Sept 8-29.

M. Knoedler & Co., New York, David Smith: Sculpture, Painting and Drawing of the Fifties, Nov 17-Dec 6.

Gesellschaft der Freunde der Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, DŸsseldorf: David Smith, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen.

Organized jointly with StŠdelsches Kunstinstitut und Staedtische, Frankfurt and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.

Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey: David Smith: Nudes. Drawings and Paintings from 1927-1964.

Organized and exhibited jointly with M. Knoedler & Co., New York

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York: David Smith: Medals for Dishonor, 1937-40.

Sezon, Shizuoka, Shiga, Kawamura: David Smith. Coordinated by ISC, Tokyo.

Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon: David Smith: Two Into Three Dimensions.

Organized by Arts Management Services/American Federation of Arts, New York.

Gagosian Gallery, New York: David Smith: The Last Nudes.

2003

2004

École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Chapelle des Petits-Augustins, Paris: Dessins de David Smith: un choix d’Alain Kirili.

Gagosian Gallery, New York: David Smith, Related Clues: Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture 1931-1964.

Donjon de Vez, Vez, France, Sculpture Monumentale Américaine, July 2004 - August 2005

Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, David Smith: Drawing and Sculpture, April 16 - July 17, 2005