Untitled

David Smith, Untitled, 1952, color lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1994.3
David Smith, Untitled, 1952, color lithograph on paper, image: 24 1418 in. (61.645.7 cm) sheet: 2621 18 in. (6653.7 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1994.3

Artwork Details

Title
Untitled
Artist
Printers
Margaret Lowendrund's Workshop
Date
1952
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
image: 24 1418 in. (61.645.7 cm) sheet: 2621 18 in. (6653.7 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Mediums Description
color lithograph on paper
Classifications
Subjects
  • Abstract
Object Number
1994.3

Works by this artist (1 item)

Hans Erni, "The reason, in respect of which we are rational beings, is common: if this is so, common also is the reason which commands us what to do, and what not to do; if this is so, there is a common law also; if this is so, we are fellow-citizens; if this is so, we are members of some political community; if this is so, the world is in a manner a state...My nature is rational and social; and my city and country, so far as I am Antonius, is Rome; but so far as I am a man, it is the world."--Marcus Aurelius Antonius, 121-180. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man., 1950, gouache, scratchwork and india ink on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.88
The reason, in respect of which we are rational beings, is…
Date1950
gouache, scratchwork and india ink on paper
Not on view

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A state which dwarfs its men in order that they may be…
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George Giusti, "Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men."--Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu, 1933. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man., 1955, India ink and gouache on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.107
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Kansas, from the United States Series
Date1948
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Not on view
Edith Jaffy Kaplan, Political liberty does not consist in an unlimited freedom...we must have continually present to our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would be no longer possessed of liberty, because all his fellow-citizens would have the same power.--Montesquieu on the Nature of Liberty. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man., 1951, brush and ink and gouache on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.137
Political liberty does not consist in an unlimited freedom…
Date1951
brush and ink and gouache on paper
Not on view