"..that men could view as natural, without reverence or awe but to whom such things were natural because they were statements of peaceful pursuit β and joined in the phenomenon of life"
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David Smith
David Smith (March 9, 1906 β May 23, 1965) was an American Abstract Expressionist sculptor best known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures.
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