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 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