Now “David Smith: The Nature of Sculpture,” at the Frederik Meijer ... like the dark, graphic “Voltri VIII” (1962), made in Italy when Smith took part in the Festival of Two Worlds ...

By contrast, the 700-plus pages of Michael Brenson’s “David Smith: The Art and Life of a Transformational Sculptor” could be justified as mirroring the subject’s height and heft ...

See About archive blog posts. Before there was Andy Warhol’s Factory, there was David Smith’s Terminal Iron Works. At the artist’s studio, first in Brooklyn and then in upstate New York ...