Aluminum, painted black
24 ft. 2 in. × 47 ft. × 33 ft. (7.37 × 14.33 × 10.06 m), edition 1/3
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
Ink on paper
12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
The reason that it's called "Smoke" is that you always think that you can see a solid. But, a solid always dissolves into other apparent solids. There are no real solids in the voids. It just seems at first, when you're in it, that you are always going to run into a solid. You don't have to be afraid because it's really just like "Smoke."
– Tony Smith, lecture transcript, Whitney Museum, 1976
Aluminum, painted black
24 ft. 2 in. × 47 ft. × 33 ft. (7.37 × 14.33 × 10.06 m), edition 1/3
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
Aluminum, painted black
24 ft. 2 in. × 47 ft. × 33 ft. (7.37 × 14.33 × 10.06 m), edition 2/3
Qatar Museum Authority, Doha
Plywood, painted black
24 × 48 × 34 ft. (7.32 × 14.63 × 10.36 m)
Scale as Content: Ronald Bladen, Barnett Newman, Tony Smith. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1967
Plywood, painted black
24 × 48 × 34 ft. (7.32 × 14.63 × 10.36 m)
Scale as Content: Ronald Bladen, Barnett Newman, Tony Smith. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1967
Cast bronze, black patina
24 × 48 × 31 in. (61 × 121.9 × 78.7 cm), edition 3/6
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT