Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

• Alexander Calder - an excellent collection of basic information on Calder.  A very good starting point. The guest book has many interesting questions and connections on things Calder. Contact harry@infogate.de

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• LibertyNet.org:  Alexander Calder (1898-1976) Born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania (now part of Philadelphia) in 1898, Alexander Calder came from a family of famous artists. Though demonstrating prodigious artistic ability as a child, a pursuit encouraged by his parents, he elected to study engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.
  
  
  • White Cascade, one of Alexander Calder's last and greatest motorized sculptures, was installed in the court of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia in 1976. It is the largest indoor mobile in the world.
    
    
• Advanced.Org: Biographical Timeline of Alexander Calder
  
  
• Documentary Videos,Movies Unlimited : Alexander Calder
  
  
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  • Alexander Calder- Calder's Universe VHS
  • Mobile By Alexander Calder VHS
    
    
• Mattatuck Museum: Alexander Calder - Alexander Calder (1898-1976) lived in Roxbury, Connecticut. He is famous for inventing mobiles, suspended sculptures based on balance and movement, and for his abstract sculptures and paintings of animated form. His work has been characterized as Surreal Constructivism.  Many of his large metal sculptures, now exhibited all over the world, were fabricated by metal workers in Waterbury.
  
  
• Student Project: Alexander Calder Works and Timeline.
  
  
• Student Project, Churchhill Road Elementary: Alexander Calder
  
  
• Joslyn Women's Association: Alexander Calder
  
  
  • Alexander Calder, America's first abstract artist of international renown, is forever associated with his invention of the mobile. Born into a Philadelphia family of sculptors, he studied first as a mechanical engineer and then as a painter in the style of the Ashcan School.
    
    
• Art in Context: Alexander Calder - Reference Page
  
  
  • Alexander Calder - Exhibitions
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• Tate Collections: Alexander Calder
  
  
  • Mobile
  • T and Swallow
  • Black Sun
  • Antennae with Red and Blue Dots
    
    
• Alexander Calder - Butterflies, Cirque, Circle of Piramids
  
  
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Alexander Calder, Hello Girls
  
  
• University of Wisconsin:  Hanging Spider: Alexander Calder
  
  
• Five Rudders -- Alexander Calder
  
  
• USC- Franklin Murphy Sculpture Garden - Alexander Calder, Button Flower
  
  
• Alexander Calder at the SFMOMA
  
  
• Alexander Calder - "Untitled",  Gouache on paper 42" x 27 1/2", 1964 - PROVENANCE: Perls Galleries, N.Y., ACA American Masters, Galleries, Los Angeles
  
  
• National Gallery of Art:
  
  
  • List of Sculpture Works (Click here for drawings and other works as well)
    
    
    • Black Camel with Blue Head and Red Tongue, 1971, 1991.7.13 
    • Black, White, and Ten Red, 1957, 1996.120.3
    • Blue and Red Bull with Yellow Head, 1971, 1991.7.12 
    • Cascading Flowers, 1949, 1996.120.5
    • Cow, 1929, 1996.120.11
    • Crinkly Taureau, 1970, 1991.7.6 
    • Crinkly Worm, 1971, 1991.7.10 
    • Deux Angles Droits, 1971, 1991.7.8 
    • Finny Fish, 1948, 1996.120.15 
    • Four White Petals, 1960, 1996.120.16
    • Horse, 1970, 1991.7.9  
    • La Vache, 1970, 1991.7.7 
    • Les Flèches, 1976, 1991.7.15
    • Little Spider, c. 1940, 1996.120.18
    • Model for East Building Mobile, 1972, 1975.114.1
    • Obus, 1972, 1983.1.49
    • Rearing Stallion, c. 1928, 1996.120.22
    • Red and Yellow Bull with Blue Head, 1971, 1991.7.11
    • Red Cow with Black Head, 1971, 1991.7.14
    • Ruby-Eyed, 1936, 1996.120.23
    • Tower with Pinwheel, 1951, 1996.120.25
    • Triple Gong, 1951, 1996.120.27
    • Untitled, 1976, 1977.76.1
    • Untitled (The Wood Mobile), 1943, 1996.120.30
    • Untitled (The Constellation Mobile), 1941, 1996.120.7
    • Untitled (The McCausland Mobile), 1937, 1996.120.19
    • Vertical Constellation with Bomb, 1943, 1996.120.8
    • White Flower, Red Flower, 1954, 1996.120.29
      
      
  • National Gallery of Art - Alexander Calder (News Release)
    
    
  • National Gallery of Art - Alexander Calder Virtual Classroom
    
    
• Calder Stamps: Colorano 3198-3202 32c Alexander Calder, set of 5 FDC's
  
  
• US Postal Service: Stamp News Release Number 98-022 Alexander Calder's art enters new dimension with issuance of five U.S postage stamps
  
  
• Alexander Calder Stamps - details
  
  
• Alexander Calder's "White Cascade"
  
  
• University of Michigan School of Information and Library Studies - SILS Art Image Browser Thumbnails Alexander Calder
  
  
• JMOCA - Renowned Artists from the Permanent Collection Alexander Calder
  
  
• JMOCA - Renowned Artists from the Permanent Collection Alexander Calder
  
  
• Alexander Calder - im ART FORUM UTE BARTH, Zürich
  
  
• Double Take Art: Alexander Calder - We buy, sell or trade Alexander Calder artwork at Doubletak
  
  
• Ro Gallery: Alexander Calder Showroom
  
  
• Landau Fine Art: Alexander Calder
  
  
• ARTseenSOHO - Alexander Calder at Pace Wildenstein
  
  
• For Sale - Alexander Calder
  
  
• Alexander Calder - DOUBLETAKE GALLERY is a great place to find artwork by Alex