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For J.W. is a public artwork by American artist Tony Smith, located at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Kent. For J.W. is a welded bronze public art sculpture that was donated by the Meijer Foundation as a gift of Fred and Lena Meijer in 2004. The sculpture is located in the Gallery section of the Sculpture Park.

Description
For J.W. stands at approximately 33 inches high and has a black patina finish. The sculpture is an edition of six that includes one artist's proof and was fabricated in 1971.

Location history
Newark, Newark Museum; Montclair, Montclair State Art Museum; Princeton, The Art Museum at Princeton University; Trenton, The New Jersey State Museum, Vineland, Cumberland County College; Holmdel, Garden State Arts Center; and Morristown, Morris Museum, (all in New Jersey), Nine Sculptures by Tony Smith, 197-71 New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Tony Smith: Recent Sculpture, 1971 (1/6) College Park, University of Maryland Art Gallery, Tony Smith: Painting and Sculpture, 1974 (1/6) Madrid, Torre Picasso; Bilboa, Sala Rekalde, Tony Smith: "For..." , 1992-93 (2/6) Nice, Villa Arson; Geneva, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain; St. Etienne, France, Musée d'Art Moderne, Tony Smith, 1994-95 (2/6) Humlebaek, Denmark, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Tony Smith, 1995-96 (2/6) London, Serpentine Gallery, Tony Smith "For..." , 1996 (2/6) San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, Line, Color, Form, 1999 (2/6) Valencia, Spain, Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Tony Smith, 2002 (2/6)

Acquisition
This sculpture was acquired by Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park on Thursday, August 19, 2004.