The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Bather

1940

David Smith

(American, 1906–1965)
America
bronze
Overall: 12.2 x 12.2 x 8 cm (4 13/16 x 4 13/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
Bequest of Dorothy Dehner 1995.36
© The Estate of David Smith / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

The sculpture was inspired by the artist's wife, Cleveland-born sculptor Dorothy Dehner, washing herself in a wheelbarrow.
  • Smith, David, and Christopher Lyon. David Smith Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonne, 1932-1965. 2021, v.2, 172 Mentioned and reproduced: p. 172, fig. 148.
  • New Brunswick, NJ: The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum (January 15-March 4, 1984), Dorothy Dehner and David Smith: Their Decades of Search and Fulfillment, fig. 11, cat. #41, p. 52, titled Bather (Lent by Dorothy Dehner, NY); also traveled to Skidmore College Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY (April 19-May 13, 1984)
  • {{cite web|title=Bather|url=false|author=David Smith|year=1940|access-date=19 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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