Robert Smithson - Background and Education

Background and Education

Smithson was born in Passaic, New Jersey and studied painting and drawing in New York City at the Art Students League of New York.

Read more about this topic:  Robert Smithson

Famous quotes containing the words background and, background and/or education:

    ... every experience in life enriches one’s background and should teach valuable lessons.
    Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)

    In the true sense one’s native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
    Emma Goldman (1869–1940)

    A President must call on many persons—some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)