retrospective exhibition by MoMA in 1957. In 1961, the MoMA organized an exhibition of fifty Smith sculptures that traveled throughout the United States until the spring of 1963. At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy" took a thematic look at the sculpture Smith produced between the Depression years and his death. Recent solo exhibitions (selection) February 12–May 15, 2011: David Smith Invents, The Phillips Collection, Washington April 3–July 24, 2011: Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles. October 6, 2011 – January 8, 2012: Whitney Museum of American Art. New York. Collections Works by David Smith are included in major collections worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Storm King Art Center has 13 Smith sculptures in its collection. The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection includes 5 Smith sculptures in is collection. Recognition He received a Creative Arts Award from Brandeis University in 1964, and in February 1965 was appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson to the National Council on the Arts. Death He died in a car crash near Bennington, Vermont on May 23, 1965. He was 59 years old. Writings Gray, Cleve, ed. David Smith by David Smith: Sculpture and Writings. New York, London: Thames & Hudson, 1968, rpt. 1989. See also Cubi series Agricola I by Smith at the Hirshhorn in Washington, D.C. Environmental sculpture Notes Further reading Gimenez, Carmen, ed. David Smith; A Centennial. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2006. Krauss, Rosalind. Terminal Iron Works: The Sculpture of David Smith. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1971. David Smith: Medals for Dishonor. New York: Independent Curators Incorporated, 1996. Smith, Candida N. The Fields of David Smith. New York, London: Thames & Hudson, 1999. Wilkin, Karen. David Smith. New York: Abbeville Press, 1984. External links David Smith estate David Smith at Gagosian Gallery Cubi XXVII Volton VVX at Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University David Smith on Widewalls Abstract sculptors Abstract expressionist artists American abstract artists Modern sculptors 1906 births 1965 deaths American contemporary painters American male sculptors Painters from Indiana Sculptors from Indiana Art Students League of New York alumni People from Decatur, Indiana People from South Bend, Indiana People from Paulding, Ohio Road incident deaths in Vermont 20th-century American sculptors 20th-century American male artists Sculptors from New York (state)