Steel, painted black
15 ft. 11⁄2 in. × 23 ft. 2 in. × 18 ft. 10 in. (461 × 706.1 × 574 cm), edition AP
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Tony Smith at Industrial Welding, Newark, New Jersey, 1971
"I don’t know just when Snake was done. I had made a tetrahedral piece in brass in 1961, several plaster models, and one other piece in wood before Snake. The latter was probably made just after Die. It began as a chance arrangement of units. At first there was not a particular base, the final form being arrived at out of the need for stability. As in other cases, the title came later. It was taken from John McNulty’s 'Third Avenue Medicine.' ‘The snake is an ordinary little vein, or maybe it is an artery, that runs along the left temple of a man’s head'."
- Tony Smith, 1966
Steel, painted black
15 ft. 11⁄2 in. × 23 ft. 2 in. × 18 ft. 10 in. (461 × 706.1 × 574 cm), edition 1/3
Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection, Albany, NY
Steel, painted black
15 ft. 11⁄2 in. × 23 ft. 2 in. × 18 ft. 10 in. (461 × 706.1 × 574 cm), edition 2/3
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Tony Smith: The Snake Is Out, Public Art Fund, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, New York, 1982–83
Plywood, painted black
15 ft. 11⁄2 in. × 23 ft. 2 in. × 18 ft. 10 in. (461 × 706.1 × 574 cm)
Sculpture in Environment, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, 1967
Cast bronze, black patina
151⁄4 × 23 × 171⁄4 in. (38.7 × 58.4 × 43.8 cm), edition 2/9
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
Cast bronze, black patina
151⁄4 × 23 × 171⁄4 in. (38.7 × 58.4 × 43.8 cm), edition 3/9
The Detroit Institute of Arts, MI
Photo Ivan Dalla Tana