Robert Smithson in Texas
Robert Smithson in Texas examines Robert Smithson's engagement with the Texas landscape.
Smithson's involvement with Texas began in July 1966, when he was hired as an artist-consultant to the New York-based architecture and engineering firm Tippetts, Abbett, McCarthy, Stratton to develop plans for the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport. Though his plans never came to fruition, Smithson credited the project as a major catalyst in his development toward the concept of large-scale earthworks. The artist returned to Texas several times in the years following the airport project, proposing earthworks related to islands off the Gulf Coast outside Houston and at the Northwood Institute near Dallas.
Smithson's final work was made in Texas: Amarillo Ramp. Though the artist had finalized the arrangement for the earthwork, he died in a plane crash while aerially viewing the staked-out form and it was completed posthumously in August 1973 by Nancy Holt, Richard Serra, and Tony Shafrazi.
Scholar Leigh Arnold outlines the art historical significance of Smithson’s engagement with the Texas landscape, paying attention to his unfinished works planned for the Lone Star State, while artist Jon Revett and art historian Amy Von Lintel think through the completion and stewarding of Smithson’s final earthwork, Amarillo Ramp.
Published on the occasion of the 2015 exhibition Robert Smithson in Texas at Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Authors
Maxwell L. Anderson, Leigh Arnold, Jon Revett, Amy Von Lintel
Editor
Elyse Goldberg
Specifications
Estate of Robert Smithson and James Cohan Gallery, 2015
ISBN 978-09846809-4-8
Hardback
80 pages
241 x 279 mm / 9.5 x 11 inches
English
Out of print
$125
Robert Smithson in Texas examines Robert Smithson's engagement with the Texas landscape.
Smithson's involvement with Texas began in July 1966, when he was hired as an artist-consultant to the New York-based architecture and engineering firm Tippetts, Abbett, McCarthy, Stratton to develop plans for the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport. Though his plans never came to fruition, Smithson credited the project as a major catalyst in his development toward the concept of large-scale earthworks. The artist returned to Texas several times in the years following the airport project, proposing earthworks related to islands off the Gulf Coast outside Houston and at the Northwood Institute near Dallas.
Smithson's final work was made in Texas: Amarillo Ramp. Though the artist had finalized the arrangement for the earthwork, he died in a plane crash while aerially viewing the staked-out form and it was completed posthumously in August 1973 by Nancy Holt, Richard Serra, and Tony Shafrazi.
Scholar Leigh Arnold outlines the art historical significance of Smithson’s engagement with the Texas landscape, paying attention to his unfinished works planned for the Lone Star State, while artist Jon Revett and art historian Amy Von Lintel think through the completion and stewarding of Smithson’s final earthwork, Amarillo Ramp.
Published on the occasion of the 2015 exhibition Robert Smithson in Texas at Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Authors
Maxwell L. Anderson, Leigh Arnold, Jon Revett, Amy Von Lintel
Editor
Elyse Goldberg
Specifications
Estate of Robert Smithson and James Cohan Gallery, 2015
ISBN 978-09846809-4-8
Hardback
80 pages
241 x 279 mm / 9.5 x 11 inches
English
Out of print
$125
Robert Smithson in Texas examines Robert Smithson's engagement with the Texas landscape.
Smithson's involvement with Texas began in July 1966, when he was hired as an artist-consultant to the New York-based architecture and engineering firm Tippetts, Abbett, McCarthy, Stratton to develop plans for the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport. Though his plans never came to fruition, Smithson credited the project as a major catalyst in his development toward the concept of large-scale earthworks. The artist returned to Texas several times in the years following the airport project, proposing earthworks related to islands off the Gulf Coast outside Houston and at the Northwood Institute near Dallas.
Smithson's final work was made in Texas: Amarillo Ramp. Though the artist had finalized the arrangement for the earthwork, he died in a plane crash while aerially viewing the staked-out form and it was completed posthumously in August 1973 by Nancy Holt, Richard Serra, and Tony Shafrazi.
Scholar Leigh Arnold outlines the art historical significance of Smithson’s engagement with the Texas landscape, paying attention to his unfinished works planned for the Lone Star State, while artist Jon Revett and art historian Amy Von Lintel think through the completion and stewarding of Smithson’s final earthwork, Amarillo Ramp.
Published on the occasion of the 2015 exhibition Robert Smithson in Texas at Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Authors
Maxwell L. Anderson, Leigh Arnold, Jon Revett, Amy Von Lintel
Editor
Elyse Goldberg
Specifications
Estate of Robert Smithson and James Cohan Gallery, 2015
ISBN 978-09846809-4-8
Hardback
80 pages
241 x 279 mm / 9.5 x 11 inches
English
Out of print
$125