David Smith (1906-1965), American sculptor and painter, pioneered in exploiting welded, openwork metal sculpture. His art was very influential, and he was one of the most significant American artists during the 1950s. David Smith was born in Decatur,...

David Jeddie Smith was born in Portsmouth, Virginia. He was educated at the University of Virginia (B.A. 1965), Southern Illinois University (M.A., 1969), and Ohio University (Ph.D., 1976). He married Deloras M. Weaver in 1966, and they have three...

When they met in an uptown Manhattan boarding house in 1926, Dorothy Dehner was a 25-year-old beauty-a dancer, actress and artist; David Smith was a 21-year-old painter seeking fame and fortune in New York. They took classes at the Art Students League, indulged...

Galleries Looking at contemporary American sculpture without thinking of David Smith is difficult. Looking at Dorothy Dehner's sculpture without his coming to mind is almost impossible. She was married to the iron-working wizard, this country's greatest 20th-century sculptor, for 25 years, and certain stylistic...

Librarians seem like the bookish types who hang out by stacks and make friends with moldy books. But David Smith, 54, a supervising librarian in the Allen Room and the Wertheim Study at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street,...

Japanese police were investigating a suspected extremist attack on the U.S. Army after two small explosions occurred outside a military base south of Tokyo, police said Tuesday.There were no reports of injury or damage at Camp Zama or from nearby residents, Kanagawa prefectural police spokesman...