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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
HOWARD SMITH (1928 - ) Don't forget to get up here...America the Beautiful.
Collage of various printed and found papers, pencil, graphite and ink on two joined sheets of wove paper, circa 1970. 438x280 mm; 17 1/4x11 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right. Titled in pencil vertically across the artwork.
Provenance: Unity Works, Culver City, CA; John Axelrod, Boston (1995); the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2011).
This early collage, clearly inspired by Saul Steinberg, is the first work by expatriate painter, sculptor and designer Howard Smith to come to auction here in the U.S. Born in Moorestown, NJ, Smith served in the U.S. Army in Japan, Korea and West Germany before being honorably discharged in 1958. He then studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia from 1960-62. He made his first trip to Finland in 1962 as a member of the Young America Presents group. He stayed and his work was exhibited widely in Finland in the 1960s and 1970s. After moving to California in 1976, Smith returned to Finland in 1984, and has had numerous solo and group gallery exhibitions there since.
