Books, Brochures, Catalogues
2019
Ketcham, Christopher M. Tony Smith: Source, Tau, Throwback. New York: Pace Gallery, 2019.
2013
Weather Permitting: 9th Bienal do Mercosul. Porto Alegre: Fundacao Bienal Artes Visuais do Mercosul, 2013.
2012
Costello, Eileen. Jackson Pollock & Tony Smith: Sculpture. New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2012.
Lehnert, Christina Anna, Doris von Drathan, Gregor Stemmrich, and Friedriche Meschede. Kiki Smith, Seton Smith, Tony Smith. Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag, 2012.
2007
Smith, Tony. Not an Object, Not a Monument. New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2007.
2005
Chevrier, Jean-François. Art and Utopia: Restricted Action. Barcelona: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2005.
2004
Agee, William. Tracing Tony Smith’s Tau. New York: Hunter College Art Galleries, 2004.
Chavez, Anja. Infinite Possibilities: Serial Imagery in 20th Century Drawings. Wellesley: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, 2004.
Davis, Stephen, and Jon Lutz. Moved. New York: Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, 2004.
Goldstein, Ann, ed. A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958–1968. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004.
Hayes, Christa-Maria Lerm. Joyce in Art: Visual Art Inspired by James Joyce. Dublin: Royal Hibernian Academy, 2004.
von Drathen, Doris. Vortex of Silence: Proposition for an Art Crticism Beyond Aesthetic Categories. Milan: Edizioni Chata, 2004.
2003
Storr, Robert. Tony Smith: Louisenberg. New York: Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 2003.
2002
Brownstone, Gilbert, Adrian Dannatt, Eleanor Heartney, David Pagel, and Michael Rush. The Smiths: Tony, Kiki, Seton. Palm Beach: Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, 2002.
de Baranano, Kosme, and Josep Salvador. Tony Smith. Valencia: Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, 2002.
2001
Abstraction: The Amerindian Paradigm. Brussels: Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles; Valencia: Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, 2001.
Criqui, Jean-Pierre. Tony Smith For Series. New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2001.
Tony Smith: Paintings and Sculpture 1960–65. New York: Mitchell-Innes & Nash and Matthew Marks Gallery, 2001.
Tony Smith Paintings: A Survey of Early Works from the 1930’s and 40’s. Chicago: Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, 2001.
1999
Pachner, Joan. Tony Smith: Stinger. New York: Paula Cooper Gallery, 1999.
1998
Storr, Robert. Tony Smith: Architect, Painter, Sculptor. With additional essays by John Keenen and Joan Pachner. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1998.
1997
Brenson, Michael. Tony Smith: Moondog. New York: Paula Cooper Gallery, 1997.
1995
Criqui, Jean Pierre, and Samuel Wagstaff, Jr. Tony Smith. Humlebaek: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 1995.
Pachner, Joan, and Klaus Kertess. Tony Smith: A Drawing Retrospective. New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 1995.
1992
Criqui, Jean-Pierre, and Kosme Maria de Baranano. Tony Smith. Madrid: Galería Theo, 1992.
1988
Meschede, Friedrich, and Joan Pachner. “Tony Smith: The Presence of Forms” and “Tony Smith: Architecture into Sculpture" in Tony Smith: Sculptures and Drawings, 1961–1969. Münster: Westfälisches Landesmuseum, 1988.
1987
Friis-Hansen, Dana. Tony Smith: The Shape of Space. Cambridge: Bakalar Sculpture Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987.
Nash, Steven A., ed. A Century of Modern Sculpture: The Patsy and Raymond Nasher Collection. New York: Rizzoli, 1987.
1985
Smith, Tony. Tony Smith, Selected Sculptures: 1961-1973 Part 1. New York: Xavier Fourcade, Inc., Paula Cooper Gallery, and Margo Leavin Gallery, 1985.
1983
Hobbs, Robert. Tony Smith: Paintings and Sculpture. New York: Pace Gallery, 1983.
1982
Ashton, Dore. Sculpture on the Edge of Dreams. Princeton: Institute for Advanced Study, 1982.
1979
Tony Smith: Ten Elements and Throwback. New York: Pace Gallery, 1979.
1974
Green, Eleanor. Tony Smith: Painting and Sculpture. College Park: University of Maryland Art Gallery, 1974.
1972
Lippard, Lucy. Tony Smith. New York: Harry N. Abrams; Stuttgart: Verlag Gerd Hatje,1972.
1971
Lippard, Lucy, and Martin Friedman. Tony Smith: Recent Sculpture. New York: M. Knoedler & Company, 1971.
Livingston, Jane. “Thoughts on Art and Technology.” A Report on the Art and Technology Program of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967–1971. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1971.
1970
Goossen, E. C. Nine Sculptures by Tony Smith. Newark: New Jersey State Council on the Arts, 1970.
1968
Goossen, E. C. The Art of the Real: USA, 1948-1968. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1968.
Neu, Renée Sabatello. “Introduction.” Tony Smith. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1968.
1967
Green, Eleanor. Scale as Content. Washington: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1967.
Varian, Elayne H. Schemata 7. New York: Finch College Museum of Art/Contemporary Study Wing, 1967.
1966
McShine, Kynaston. Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors. New York: Jewish Museum,1966.
Wagstaff, Samuel, Jr. Tony Smith: Two Exhibitions of Sculpture. Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum; Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art,1966.
Articles
2017
Ketcham, Christopher. "Tony Smith, Bryant Park, and Body Politics in John Lindsay's New York," Public Art Dialogue, November 2, 2017.
Cronan, Todd. "Why Architecture Matters As Art As Never Before: Le Corbusier, Tony Smith and the Problem of Use," Nonsite.org, July 17, 2017.
2015
Dunne, Susan. “Renovated Wadsworth Galleries Show Off Contemporary Collections,” Hartford Courant, January 18, 2015.
2013
Vankin, Deborah. "Huntington acquires works by Tony Smith and Frederick Hammersley," Los Angeles Times, December 17, 2013.
Ribas, João. "9th Mercosul Biennial," Artforum, December 2013, 258-259.
Knight, Christopher. "Entering a 'Maze' of Illusion," Los Angeles Times, November 8, 2013.
Hoberman, Mara. “Kiki, Seton, and Tony Smith,” Artforum, Summer 2013.
Vogel, Carol. "Back to Bryant Park," The New York Times, March 8, 2013.
2012
Provan, Alexander. "Ninth Bienal Do Mercosul," Art in America, December 2012, 147-148.
Wei, Lilly. "Tony Smith," Artnews, November 2012, 146-147.
Cembalest, Robin. “Jackson’s Other Actions: Pollock’s Sculptures Resurface,” Artnews, September 13, 2012.
Vogel, Carol. “…And Sculpture,” The New York Times, September 7, 2012.
2010
Finkel, Jori. “Tony Smith’s monumental sculpture ‘Smoke’ will not disappear from LACMA; mutimillion-dollar purchase finalized,” Los Angeles Times, June 18, 2010.
2009
“Tony Smith,” Palais, Summer 2009, 79.
2008
Smith, Roberta. “Rounding Up the Usual Suspects,” The New York Times, February 15, 2008.
Vogel, Carol. “Monumental Gesture at Renovated Museum,” The New York Times, January 1, 2008.
2007
Sommerstein, Rachael. “It Started with Arp,” Artnews, May 2007, 70.
2006
Smith, Valerie. “Take Back the Site,” Artforum, September 2006, 161.
2005
Muschamp, Herbert. “Sitegeist,” New York Times Design Magazine, October 9, 2005, 142–47.
2004
Meyer, James. “No More Scale: The Experience of Size in Contemporary Sculpture,” Artforum, Summer 2004, 200-8.
Cohen, David. The New York Sun, June 17, 2004, 16.
Nadalman, Cynthia. “Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated),” Artnews, May 2004, 146.
2003
Bois, Yves Alain. “Tony Smith at Mitchell-Innes and Nash,” Artforum, Summer 2003, 181-182.
Johnson, Ken. “Art In Review: Tony Smith; Louisenberg,” The New York Times, February 14, 2003, E45.
Douglas, Sarah. “Tony Smith at Mitchell-Innes and Nash,” The Art Newspaper, February 2003.
2002
Caruso Corrigan, Joyce. “The Smith Mystery,” Artnet, December 20, 2002.
Camhi, Leslie. “A Family Affair,” Vogue, December 2002.
Morgan, Robert C. “In the Ether of Solids: Tony Smith,” Sculpture, December 2002, 43–47.
Bono, Ferran. “Sculpture Show Reflects Spare Style of Tony Smith,” El País, English edition with the International Herald Tribune, March 16, 2002, 8.
2001
Glueck, Grace. “Tony Smith Paintings and Sculpture, 1960–65,” The New York Times, June 15, 2001, E34.
Naves, Mario. “A Minimalist Artist with a Modernist Bent,” New York Observer, June 11, 2001.
1999
Pollack, Barbara. “Moondog Multiples,” Artnews, September 1999, 74.
Kalina, Richard. “Building Form,” Art in America, March 1999, 78–85, 129.
1998
Senie, Harriet F. "Re-Approaching Tony Smith," Sculpture, November 1998, 8-43.
Bois,Yve-Alain, and Jean Pierre Criqui, “Matters of Scale,” Artforum, November 1998, 86-91, 137.
1997
Alberto, Alexander. "Tony Smith," Artforum, September 1997, 122.
Glueck, Grace. “Geometry, Man’s and Nature’s,” The New York Times, May 9, 1997, C36.
von Drathen, Doris. "Away from Categories: An Alternative View of Tony Smith and Carl Andre," Art Press, May 1997, 38-47.
1996
Criqui, Jean-Pierre. “Tony Smith,” Artforum, April 1996, 102.
1995
Kimmelman, Michael. “A Combustible Compound of Geometry and Intuition,” The New York Times, December 8, 1995, C27.
1993
Criqui, Jean-Pierre. “T. Smith: Dedale, Architecte et Sculpteur,” L’architecture d’aujourd’hui, April 1993, 42–47.
1989
"Smug on Canal Street," Art in America, January 1989, 23.
1987
Criqui, Jean-Pierre. “Trictrac pour Tony Smith,” Artstudio, Fall 1987, 17–21, 38–51.
1986
Ellis, Stephen. "Tony Smith," Art in America, February 1986, 125.
1982
Firestone, Evan R. “James Joyce and the First Generation New York School,” Arts Magazine, June 1982, 116–21.
1981
Tuchman, Phyllis. “Tony Smith: A Modern Master,” New Jersey Monthly, January 1981, 120–26.
1980
Tuchman, Phyllis. “Tony Smith, Master Sculptor,” Portfolio, Summer 1980, 52-55
1976
Kardon, Janet. “Janet Kardon Interviews Some Modern Maze-Makers.” Art International/The Art Spectrum, April/May 1976, 64–65.
1975
Smith, Tony. “Statement by Sculptors,” Art Journal, Winter 1975/76, 126–29.
1974
Green, Eleanor. “The Morphology of Tony Smith,” Artforum, April 1974, 54–59.
1971
Lippard, Lucy. “Tony Smith: Talk about Sculpture,” Artnews, April 1971, 48–49, 68, 71–72.
1968
Lippard, Lucy. "Escalation in Washington," Art International, January 1968, 42-46.
1967
Smith, Tony. "The Maze/ Tony Smith," Aspen, Fall and Winter 1967.
Kramer, Hilton. "The Studio vs. the Street," The New York Times, October 15, 1967, 23.
Halasz, Piri. "Master of the Monumentalists," Time, October 13, 1967, Cover & 80-86.
Kramer, Hilton. "Sculpture: Three Big Ones," The New York Times, October 7, 1967, 24.
Richard, Paul. "A Sculptor Weds Geometry to Wood," The Washington Post, August 13, 1967.
Lippard, Lucy. “The Ineluctable Modality of the Visible,” Art International, Summer 1967, 24–26.
Baro, Gene. “Tony Smith: Toward Speculation in Pure Form,” Art International, Summer 1967, 27–31.
Fried, Michael. “Art and Objecthood,” Artforum, Summer 1967, 12–23.
Perreault, John. “New Concepts,” The Village Voice, May 25, 1967.
Glueck, Grace. "Walk-in Sculpture at Finch Museum," The New York Times, May 13, 1967.
Rosenberg, Harold. “Defining Art,” The New Yorker, February 25, 1967, 99–109.
Kramer, Hilton. “Art: A Sculpture Show in Bryant Park,” New York Times, February 2, 1967.
Kozloff, Max. “Art,” The Nation, January 23, 1967, 125–26.
1966
Burton, Scott. “Old Master at the New Frontier,” Artnews, December 1966, 52–55, 68–70.
Wagstaff, Samuel, Jr. “Talking with Tony Smith,” Artforum, December 1966, 14–19.
Morris, Robert. “Notes on Sculpture, Part II,” Artforum, October 1966, 21.
Interview and Personal Statements
1978
Smith, Tony. Interview by Paul Cummings, transcript. Washington: Archives of American Art, August 22 and August 30, 1978.
1975
“Statements by Sculptors: Tony Smith,” Art Journal 35 (Winter 1975–76): 128–129.
1971
Lippard, Lucy. “Tony Smith: Talk about Sculpture,” Artnews, April 1971: 48–49, 68, 71-72.
1970
Smith, Tony. “Project for a Parking Lot,” and “Conceptual Architecture,” Special issue, Design Quarterly 78/79 (1970): 64–66.
1968
Smith, Tony. Interview by Renée Sabatello Neu. Tony Smith exhibition brochure. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1968.
1967
Smith, Tony. Interview by Elayne H. Varian. Schemata 7 exhibition catalogue. New York: Finch College Museum of Art, 1967. Reprinted in Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology, edited by Gregory Battcock, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995, 378–80.
1966
Wagstaff, Samuel, Jr. “Talking with Tony Smith,” Artforum, December 1966, 14–19. Reprinted in Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology, edited by Gregory Battcock, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995, 381–86; and in Tony Smith exhibition catalogue, Humlebaek: Louisiana Museum for Modern Art, 1995.
Unpublished Theses
2018
Ketcham, Christopher M. "Minimal Art and Body Politics in New York City, 1961-1975." PhD dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA: Masschusetts Institute of Technology, 2018.
1993
Pachner, Joan. “Tony Smith: Architect, Painter, Sculptor.” PhD dissertation, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Dissertation Information Service, 1993.
1991
Claassen, Garth Henry. "Tony Smith's Sculpture: Five Morphological Paradigms." PhD dissertation, Indiana University. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Dissertation Information Service, 1991.