Harriet Dyer Adams papers relating to David Smith
name: label: Creator
content: Adams, Harriet Dyer
label: Names
content: Smith, David, 1906-1965
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors
label: Topic
content: Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1997-1998 by Harriet Dyer Adams.
creator: label: Creator
content: Adams, Harriet Dyer
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Adams (b. 1900), and art historian and gallery director, Louisville, Ky., was acquainted with the sculptor David Smith. In Jan. 1951, the Louisville Public Library's Junior Art Gallery, where she served as director, hosted a traveling exhibition from the Museum of Modern Art, "Carvers-Modelers-Welders" which included a piece by Smith. Adams augmented the Louisville stop with sketches and studies loaned by Smith, whom she had visited the previous summer.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 23 Items
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1950-1951
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.adamharr
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Six letters and postcards from David Smith to Adams, Mar.-Dec. 1951; photographs, including 4 of Smith and his sculpture taken by Adams at Smith's studio at Bolton Landing, N.Y. during the summer of 1950 and several of his sculpture and exhibit installation at the Junior Art Gallery, Louisville (Ky.) Public Library, 1951. Also included is an announcement for a Smith exhibition from the Willard Gallery in New York, ca. 1951. The letters and postcards relate to upcoming exhibitions, financial problems, teaching positions and other topics.