Storm King Art Center and Whitney Museum of American Art receive Cubi XXI

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This major work by David Smith is a  gift from the Lipman Family Foundation

Stainless-steel sculpture, on view through January 8 in Whitney exhibition ‘David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy’

Storm King Art Center and the Whitney Museum of American Art have announced the acquisition of Cubi XXI, a 1964 sculpture by pre-eminent American artist David Smith (1906–1965). A key work from the artist's celebrated ‘Cubi’ series (1961–5), the large-scale, burnished stainless-steel sculpture is a gift to the two institutions from the Lipman Family Foundation. Cubi XXI is on view at the Whitney Museum through January 8, 2012, in the special exhibition David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy. It will then return to Storm King Art Center, where it had been on long-term loan since 2001, and will be reinstalled on Museum Hill in time for the Art Center's 2012 season (April 4 through November 25). The Whitney looks forward to presenting Cubi XXI in its new downtown building, which is slated to open in 2015.