Steel, painted black
11 ft. 5 in. × 14 ft. × 13 ft. 4 1/2 in. (348 × 426.7 × 407.7 cm), edition 3/3
Baltimore Museum of Art, MD. Photo Mitro Hood
Tony Smith and Sam Wagstaff, Hartford, CT, 1966–67. Photo Edward Saxe
“This is based on one of the earliest exercises with the tetrahedron. I didn’t set out to make a large triangular pyramid from a lot of small ones. Looking at the model for another piece, I made some adjustments in my head. The plaster models having disappeared, a new model was prepared from flimsy paper units. This was carried off by the curator at Hartford, probably on the grounds that none would be needed for executing such a simple piece. I did make another model, but in my haste left off a whole layer of units. The final product is perhaps too plain to stand for something that has been outlawed.”
From Tony Smith: Two Exhibitions of Sculpture. Hartford, CT and Philadelphia, PA: Wadsworth Atheneum and Institute of Contemporary Art, 1966
Steel, painted black
11 ft. 5 in. × 14 ft. × 13 ft. 4 1/2 in. (348 × 426.7 × 407.7 cm), edition 1/3
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Steel, painted black
11 ft. 5 in. × 14 ft. × 13 ft. 4 1/2 in. (348 × 426.7 × 407.7 cm), edition 2/3
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Steel, painted black
11 ft. 5 in. × 14 ft. × 13 ft. 4 1/2 in. (348 × 426.7 × 407.7 cm), edition 3/3
Baltimore Museum of Art, MD. Photo Mitro Hood
Plywood
11 ft. 5 in. × 14 ft. × 13 ft. 4 1/2 in. (348 × 426.7 × 407.7 cm)
Orange, NJ
Black granite
12 1/8 × 14 1/2 × 15 in. (30.8 × 36.8 × 38.1 cm)
Prototype, multiple of 50
The granite multiple was commissioned by the Friends of Modern Art of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1970