Artwork categories RS

sculpture made using rocks and mirrors in a square shape

Sculpture

a truck dumping black asphalt onto an earthen hillside

Earthwork

grassy hilside with seven mirrors placed in line one behind the other on the ground

Photo and Slideworks

aerial view of red water with a large spiraling jetty in the center

Film & Video

a graphite drawing of white angular lines forking out from a central point

Works on Paper

a yellow silhouetted figure and a busy geometric background of shapes and colors

Paintings

Featured Works

black and white image of the center of a large mine, with spiraling center circle

Bingham Copper Mining Pit—Utah / Reclamation Project

Robert Smithson

1973

Bingham Canyon Copper Mine, Utah, USA

Works on Paper

a drawing of a flat mass of sulfur and tar with handwritten annotations

Cambrian Map of Sulfur and Tar

Robert Smithson

1969

Works on Paper

a mirror with a concentric forking design painted onto the center in light yellow and a signature and title on the bottom

Robert Smithson

1971

Paintings

a white sand beach with a pile of sea shells arranged into a long round oval shape. blue sky and ocean in the background

Hypothetical Continent in Shells: Lemuria

Robert Smithson

1969

Sanibel Island, Florida

Photo and Slideworks

graphite drawing of an imagined island landscape

Robert Smithson

1970

Works on Paper

collage and drawing on graph paper depicting a theoretical continent of Lemuria, a map, and many handwritten notes

The Hypothetical Continent of Lemuria

Robert Smithson

1969

Works on Paper