Cor-Ten steel, oiled finish
15 ft. 1 in. × 25 ft. 6 in. × 18 ft. 7 in. (459.7 × 777.2 × 566.4 cm), edition 1/3
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Tony Smith with Cigarette
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
“I had set out to make a serious piece of sculpture and thought I had done so. Upon seeing the smooth plaster model, I realized that I had been taken in by irregularities of the paper one. The piece was redundant and had the look of a war memorial. Stripping away everything but the spine, I wound up with a cigarette from which one puff had been taken before it was ground in the ashtray.”
– Tony Smith, 1966