The National Gallery of Art displayed Alexander Calder: A Survey
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Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his monumental public sculptures. Calder preferred not to analyze his work, saying, "Theories may be all very well for the artist himself, but they shouldn't be broadcast to other people." His father, Alexander Stirling Calder, and grandfather, Alexande…
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culture · American sculptor (1898–1976) · sculptor · painter · photographer · designer · jewelry designer · graphic artist · illustrator · printmaker · draftsperson · visual artist · also Alexander Calder, Sandy Calder, Calder
Born 22 July 1898 · Died 11 November 1976 · Q151580
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2024· 1 entry
2013· 2 entries
She caricatured her family and friends as animals in the 2013 book The Calder Family and Other Critters: Portraits and Reflections.
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The Calder Estate filed a lawsuit against the estate of his former dealer, Klaus Perls, alleging that Perls had sold fake Calders as well as concealing the ownership of 679 works by the artist
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2010· 1 entry
His metal mobile Untitled (Autumn Leaves) sold at Sotheby's New York for $3
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2009· 1 entry
Rejected the appeal of an art collector who wished to sell a couple of stage sets that Calder had designed but did not live to see completed, which had been unsuccessfully submitted to the Calder Foundation for authentic
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2008· 1 entry
The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibited Calder Jewelry, the first museum exhibit devoted solely to Calder's jewelry
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1995· 2 entries
Jon Shirley (the former president of Microsoft and a Calder collector) purchased Two White Dots for $1 million
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Questions arose about another purported Calder, Two White Dots (not to be confused with the similarly named piece, Two White Dots in the Air, which Calder created in 1958)
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1994· 1 entry
The Calder Foundation declined to include the mobile in the catalogue raisonné on the artist
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1993· 1 entry
The owners of Rio Nero (1959), a sheet-metal and steel-wire mobile ostensibly by Calder, went to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia charging that it was not by Alexander Calder, as claimed by i
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1987· 1 entry
The Calder Foundation was established by Calder's family, "dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, preserving, and interpreting the art and archives of Alexander Calder and [is] charged with an unmatched collection of his w
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1982· 1 entry
Segretario constructed a full-size version of Two White Dots, and sold it in 1983 to art dealer Shirley Teplitz for $70,000
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1977· 3 entries
Awarded Goslarer Kaiserring (1977).
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Gerald Ford (1977).
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For the Hart Senate Office Building, Mountains and Clouds was not built until 1985 due to government budget cuts
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1976· 2 entries
Died 1976-11-11.
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Without a full-size version of Two White Dots having been made
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1975· 1 entry
Calder was commissioned to paint a BMW 3
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1974· 1 entry
Calder unveiled two sculptures, Flamingo at Federal Plaza and Universe at Sears Tower, in Chicago, Illinois, accompanied by the exhibition Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, at the Museum of Contemporary Art,
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1973· 3 entries
The 63-foot-tall (19 m) vermillion-colored public art sculpture Four Arches was installed on Bunker Hill, Los Angeles to serve as "a distinctive landmark"
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Calder had created a 1-foot (0
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Calling for the painting of one Douglas DC-8-62 jet liner, dubbed Flying Colors, and 50 gouaches for a total price of $100,000
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1972· 1 entry
But Calder responded that he did not paint toys
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1971· 1 entry
Calder created his Bent Propeller which was installed at the entrance of the World Trade Center's North Tower in New York City
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1966· 2 entries
Calder published his Autobiography with Pictures with the help of his son-in-law, Jean Davidson
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Winners of the National Magazine Awards are awarded an "Ellie", a copper-colored stabile resembling an elephant, which was designed by Calder
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1963· 1 entry
Calder settled into a new workshop, overlooking the valley of the Lower Chevrière to the village of Saché in Indre-et-Loire (France)
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1958· 1 entry
Calder asked Jean Prouvé to construct the steel base of Spirale in France, a monumental mobile for the UNESCO site in Paris, while the top was fabricated in Connecticut
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1955· 1 entry
And Louisa traveled through India for three months, where Calder produced nine sculptures as well as some jewelry
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1954· 1 entry
Calder selected the Perls Galleries in New York as his new American dealer, and this alliance lasted until Calder's death
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1951· 1 entry
Calder devised a new kind of sculpture, related structurally to his constellations
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1950· 1 entry
And for the rest of Calder's life
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1943· 1 entry
The Museum of Modern Art hosted a Calder retrospective, curated by James Johnson Sweeney and Marcel Duchamp; the show had to be extended due to the number of visitors
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1942· 1 entry
Guggenheim wore one Calder earring and one by Yves Tanguy to the opening of her New York gallery, The Art of This Century, to demonstrate her equal loyalty to Surrealist and abstract art, examples of which she displayed
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1938· 1 entry
At George Walter Vincent Smith Gallery in Springfield, Massachusetts
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1935· 2 entries
Calder and his wife, Louisa, were the parents of two daughters, Sandra (1935–2022) and Mary (1939–2011).
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Had his first solo museum exhibition in the United States at The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
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1934· 3 entries
Calder made his first outdoor works in his Roxbury, Connecticut studio, using the same techniques and materials as his smaller works
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For $60, after talking Calder down from $100
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By outdoor standing mobiles in industrial materials, which were set in motion by the open air
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1933· 1 entry
To a farmhouse they purchased in Roxbury, Connecticut, where they raised a family (Sandra born 1935, Mary born 1939)
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1930· 1 entry
Where he was impressed by the environment-as-installation, "shocked" him into fully embracing abstract art, toward which he had already been tending
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1929· 1 entry
Had his first solo show of these sculptures in Paris at Galerie Billiet
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1927· 1 entry
At the Gallery of Jacques Seligmann in Paris
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1926· 1 entry
Calder began to create his Cirque Calder, a miniature circus fashioned from wire, cloth, string, rubber, cork, and other found objects
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1925· 2 entries
And continued to produce illustrations for books and journals
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One of his assignments was sketching the Ringling Bros
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1918· 1 entry
Joined the Student's Army Training Corps, Naval Section, at Stevens and was made guide of the battalion
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1915· 1 entry
“I wanted to be an engineer because some guy I rather liked was a mechanical engineer, that”
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1912· 1 entry
Calder's father was appointed acting chief of the Department of Sculpture of the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California, and began work on sculptures for it
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1907· 1 entry
Nanette Calder took her son to the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, where he observed a four-horse-chariot race
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1906· 1 entry
At the age of eight for his sister's dolls using copper wire that he found in the street
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1905· 1 entry
His father contracted tuberculosis, and Calder's parents moved to a ranch in Oracle, Arizona, leaving the children in the care of family friends for a year
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1902· 1 entry
Also completed his earliest sculpture, a clay elephant
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1898· 2 entries
Born 1898-07-22.
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In the Lawnton section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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1868· 1 entry
And is best known for the colossal statue of William Penn on Philadelphia City Hall's tower
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