Study for The Hero

27 July 1988, purchased from Anthony d’Offay Gallery (London) by Terese and Alvin S. Lane(Riverdale, NY); 2008, deposited on long-term loan to the Chazen Museum of Art; 2012, bequeathed to the Chazen Museum of Art

• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection: Twentieth-Century Sculpture and Sculptors' Works on Paper." Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1995. cat. no. 51.6
• Krauss, Rosalind E. "The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné." New York, NY: Garland, 1977. cat. no.750
• Dreishpoon, Douglas. "Between Transcendence and Brutality: American Sculptural Drawings from the 1940s and 1950s." Tampa, FL: Tampa Museum of Art, 1994. p. 21, no. 8
• Anthony d'Offay Gallery. "David Smith: Drawings of the Fifties." London" Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1988. pl. 8

• David Smith: Follow My Path: Hauser & Wirth, New York, 4/27/2021–7/30/2021
• Family Album, A: Brooklyn Collects: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 3/2/2001–7/1/2001
• Lane Collection, The: Twentieth-Century Sculpture and Sculptors' Works on Paper: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 9/30/1995–12/3/1995
• Between Transcendence and Brutality: American Sculptural Drawings from the 1940s: Tampa Museum of Art, 9/24/1994–11/7/1994
• David Smith: Drawings of the Fifties: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 7/13/1988–8/12/1988

• North America
• Drawings & Watercolors
• Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection

The Chazen Museum of Art welcomes comments or inquiries about works in our collection. Please allow two–three weeks for a response. Chazen staff is not able to provide valuations or authentications and such inquiries cannot be answered.