David Smith was born in 1906 in Indiana. from 1924-25 he attended Ohio university, then the University of Notre Dame for two weeks and left because there were no art classes. Smith made his first sculpture from pieces of coral in the Virgin Islands in 1931-32. He started by making three-dimensional objects from wood, wire, coral, and soldered metal. Smith often said that he belongs with painters, but made sculptures that were never before seen in three dimensions. His most revolutionary concept was that the only difference between paintings and sculpture was the addition of the third dimension.