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: Two Exhibition of Sculpture, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1966–67
Tony Smith and Sam Wagstaff
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.”
– Tony Smith, 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, edition of 50
The granite edition was commissioned by the Friends of Modern Art of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1970