Dicksmithkit

Richard Smith, artist

1931–2016

Dicksmithkit, 1960

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: canvas; oil

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 46.7 x 51.4 cm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 18 3/8 x 20 3/16 in

Credit line: Gift of Ron Slowinski

Accession number: 2002.0176

Not on display

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Associated with Pop Art and color field painting, Richard Smith blurred the line between high culture and mass media. While living in New York in the early 1960s, Smith began to incorporate influences from advertising into his artistic practice. He was inspired by the distortions of scale he saw in billboards, packaging, and cinema. Smith later began exploring the boundary between painting and sculpture through pieces that extended into the space in front of the canvas.