Cubi XXII, 1964
Burnished stainless steel, 103 3/4 x 72 3/4 x 35 in. (263.5 x 184.8 x 88.9 cm)
Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund
1968.31
©Estate of David Smith / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
Cubi XXII is one of a series created by American modernist sculptor David Smith between 1961 and 1965. The series consists of twenty-eight large-scale, geometric, stainless-steel sculptures burnished to a highly reflective surface with a circular sander. Smith intended the works to be exhibited outside. Of his practice as a sculptor, which he began in the 1920s at the Art Students League of New York, Smith wrote, "I want sculpture to show the wonder of man, that flowing water, rocks, clouds, vegetation, have for the man in peace who glories in existence."
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