Artwork categories RS

A metal box filled with rocks and horizontal slots cut in the box on the floor and horizontal images on the wall.

Sculpture

Aerial photo of the Spiral Jetty.

Earthwork

A white figurative statue in front of a heavily textured storefront in Passaic, New Jersey

Photo and Slideworks

A film still from the movie Spiral Jetty. Enlarged graphic image of a sunspot.

Film & Video

A graphite drawing of a small island in Maine with a meandering canal.

Works on Paper

abstract painting with sharp black lines and brown and yellow tones

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 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

graphite drawing of an imagined island landscape

Robert Smithson

1970

Works on Paper

a wooden structure covered in earth on the right side and on top

Partially Buried Woodshed

Robert Smithson

1970

Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA

Earthwork

black and white image of pipes gushing water into a river

The Monuments of Passaic

Robert Smithson

1967

Passaic, NJ, USA

Photo and Slideworks