Robert Smithson, American,1938-1973, Untitled, noted within each woodcut, 'Boys Looking at a Hot Book, Speaking at High School Assembly, Teenagers and Beggar on 42nd Street for Daniel Donahue', woodcut on paper, signed and dated lower right 'R.Smithson 10/1955' , en verso Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles inventory labels. Note: The Castellane gallery held Smithson two solo shows. This likely extant untitled woodcut print was made when Smithson was 17, the piece was submitted to the Arts Student League in scholarship application for high school students for which he won. One of the jury members at the time was Philip Guston. Special thanks to both Suzaan Boettger and the Munson Museum staff for their provenance contributions. Exhibition History: Munson Museum Exhibition "Wood, Acid, Grease, Silk: Printmaking from the Museum of Art Collection August 04, 2009 - October 4,2009. Philip Johnson Building at the Munson Museum, August 2021 Robert Smithson Retrospective: Works 1955-1973, Oslo, The National Museum of Contemporary Art 2/27/99-5/2/99Stockholm, Modern Museum 6/19/99-9/12/99Ishoj, Arken Museum of Modern Art, 10/2/99-1/16/2000 Robert Smithson, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art 9/12/2004 - 12/13/2004Dallas Museum of Art 1/14/2005 - 4/3/2005Whitney Museum of American Art, 6/23/2005 - 10/23/2005 Exhibition history illustrated and discussed in Suzaan Boettger?s Smithson biography titled ?Inside the Spiral: The Passions of Robert Smithson?, University of Minnesota Press, 2023, Figure 1.2, page 21. Special thanks to author Suzaan Boettger and the Munson Museum for providing a detailed provenance
Dimensions: 36" x 144", framed 40" x 149"
Property from the collection of Richard Castellane - Castellane Gallery Manhattan, Decommissioned from Pratt - Munson Museum, Utica New York

Backing material placed to the underside of the paper stabilizing tears and losses to left margin, small bit of toning to the paper, small tear to the upper right edge of paper, some inner frame lining sagging