Collected by Peggy Guggenheim
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Alexander Calder was born to a family of sculptors. His grandfather, Alexander Milne Calder (1846-1923), studied with Thomas Eakins and is famous for the elaborate sculptural decorations of Philadelphia's City Hall
View Mobile S/T (Circa 1955) Attributed to Calder Alexander; Polychrome metal, wire and steel wire; 1000; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.
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Hirshhorn After Hours, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Alexander Calder American, b. Lawnton, Pennsylvania, 1898 - 1976 Stabile-Mobile: Red Lily, (1947) Painted sheet metal and wire 50 3/4 x 77 1/4 x 51 in. (variable) (129.0 x 196.2 x 129.5 cm.) The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981 (86.746 ) www.hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/record.asp?OnView=1&h... - - - - - Blogged by Il Blog del Gigante ("Calderizzatevi" - February 7, 2010) at blog.tanadelgigante.altervista.org/site_blog/?x=entry:ent...
Bonhams will offer Alexander Calder's 1960 mobile "Maripose" in the November 12 Contemporary Art auction. Calder large scale hanging mobile for sale.
It may sound like the beginning of a joke, but members of the US Senate are pondering the mobility of an Alexander Calder mobile.
Round up of Calder Mobile projects for elementary, middle and high school students.
An Alexander Calder mobile. A classic mid century kinetic sculpture!
Calder Mobile Always start building a mobile from the bottom! Then build up level by level, balancing each hanger. Be sure that the mobile can move - parts should not collide! Various materials can be used As hangers you can use e.g. branches, straws, chopsticks - and of course metal thread. The law of gravity Many laws can be bend or circumvented - the law of gravity cannot!!! The suspension point is always to be above the point of gravity.:
Round up of Calder Mobile projects for elementary, middle and high school students.
Click through the newly-unveiled online research archive before seeing MoMA’s ambitious Calder show this weekend.
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Modern Abstract Kinetic Mobiles and Art Sculptures
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Alexander Calder’s mobiles occupy space not through volumetric form but through multiple planar shapes that branch out into space. For his mature, wind-driven mobiles, Calder sought the random movement induced by air currents, but controlled it through carefully calibrated systems of weights and balances. Large cut-metal mobiles such as Big Red spin slowly through 360 degrees, while subsidiary systems within the composition form their own independent kinetic arrangements. In the 1950s, Calder began to work with commercial fabricators—a practice that allowed him to greatly expand the scale of his sculpture, as exemplified by Big Red’s 9 1/2-foot span. The shapes of his sheet metal cutouts also became more standardized, and he often used primary colors from the commercially available palette, such as the one that gives Big Red its name.
