Word: abstractionist
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...abstractionist was a husky, stubble-headed, Indiana-born sculptor named David Smith, who welds and hammers his scraps of iron in a waterfront studio in a corner of Brooklyn Terminal Iron Works. Mr. Smith's iron work at the Neumann-Willard Gallery bears such titles as Head as Still Life, Unity of Three Forms, Leda, looks to the uninitiated like miscellaneous plumbing that has survived a conflagration. But to those who know their abstract iron onions, these arthropodal trivets are as good as they come. For his material, he sometimes ransacks junk yards, picks over leftovers from the neighboring...