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Robert Smithson was born in Passaic on 2 January 1938 and worked as a sculptor, photographer, geologist and draftsperson. He was educated at the Art Students League of New York and was associated with the land art movement, creating the work Spiral Jetty. Smithson worked in Vancouver, Rome, Emmen and Chicago, participated in Documenta 5, and was a member of American Abstract Artists. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his work is held in the collections of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Finnish National Gallery and Tate. He once wrote, 'Nature is never finished.' Smithson died in an aviation accident in Amarillo on 20 July 1973.