David Smith began to exploit the potentialities of stainless steel as a medium in the 1950s. He employed this material for the creation of his Cubi, a brilliant series of twenty-eight sculptures that were destined to become the capstone of hid career. It was David Smith himself who said, “I like outdoor sculpture, and the most practical thing for outdoor sculpture is stainless steel, and I make them and I polish them in such a way that on a dull day, they take on a dull blue, of the color of the sky in the late afternoon sun, the glow, golden like the rays, the colors of nature
