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Alexander Calder

[American Abstract Kinetic Artist, 1898-1976]

• Relationships: Member of the Abstraction-Creation Group in Paris, 1930s.
• Browse all:  American artists  /  kinetic artists

I love red so much that I almost want to paint everything red.Alexander Calder

 


 
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Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database   NEW!
3 works by Alexander Calder online

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
2 works online

Alexander Calder at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
6 works by Alexander Calder

Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Many works online

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana   NEW!

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
6 works by Alexander Calder online

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

Alexander Calder at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
21 works by Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Vertical Constellation with Bomb

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2 works by Calder

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Jacaranda

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
3 works online

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Mobile, ca.1934
Silver Bedhead, 1945-46

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Arc of Petals, 1941

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Red Lily

The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
4 works online

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Yellow Among Reds

Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Landscape with Country House

Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, California
Button Flower, 1959

Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia

Art Fund for UK Museums

Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
9 works online

Arts on the Point Sculpture Park, Boston
Mobile

Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
Three Worms and a New Moon, ca.1949

Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive
The Hawk for Peace, 1968

Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
Untitled, ca.1970

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)   NEW!
untitled (The Red Cone), painted metal, ca.1950

Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah

Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City
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Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Balloons

Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Untitled

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand   NEW!
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Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Colby College Museum of Art, Maine   NEW!
Untitled, 1946

Colby College Museum of Art, Maine   NEW!
Black Dot in the Air, 1950

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire   NEW!
5 works online

DePaul University Museum, Chicago
Boomerang, lithograph, 1975

GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
Red mobile

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Title Unknown, 1948

Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, New York
Flash slideshow; Click "Works on Paper" and navigate to work #9

Howard University Art Collection, Washington D.C.
Balloons, ca.1974

Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Waves, 1973

Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska
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Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University   NEW!

Alexander Calder in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
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Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, Indiana
Pyramids, 1975

Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Untitled, 1947

Musée d'Art Moderne, Lille, France (in French)  

Musée de Grenoble, France (in French)  
Monsieur Loyal, 1967

Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Mobil, 1931

Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)  

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Polychrome and Horizontal Bluebird

Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design
"Splotchy" Wallpaper (image 17)

Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design
A Mobile with a Stabile Tail (image 20)

Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Caracas, 1955

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by Alexander Calder online

Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid

Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid
Information about a 2003-2004 exhibition

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  
The Whirling Ear
Mobile


San Diego Museum of Art, California
Spinal Column, 1968

San Diego Museum of Art, California
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Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Snake on Arch

Alexander Calder at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Alexander Calder at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
From "Getting the Picture: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art"

Alexander Calder at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
Letter from Calder to Ben Shahn. Amusingly, what appears to be sketch for one of Calder's designs turns out to be a map to his home in Connecticut.

Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Le Halebardier, 1971

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
Prickly Pear

U.S. Senate Art Collection
Mountains and Clouds

University of Kentucky Art Museum
The Star, 1960

University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum
Grey Oval (select from the drop-down list)

Vero Beach Museum of Art, Florida
Untitled

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Hooked Rug

Walker Art Center, Minnesota

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Object with Red Discs, 1931
(At the bottom of the page are 2 more works by Calder)

Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 
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Alexander Calder copyright requests handled by the Artists Rights Society.

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Pictures from Image Archives:
Alexander Calder at Insecula

NYC JPG
Stabile

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
12 works documented

PBase Photo Sharing
(Set the size to "original" to see images at their highest resolution)
Some of Calder's public works, mixed in with random photos

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Web Sites About the Artist:
Calder Foundation

 
Other Web Sites:
Art Collection of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Virginia
Composition, 37/150, 1973

Jacksonville Florida Times-Union
From the Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art

Los Angeles Police Department, Art Theft Detail   NEW!
Little Roxbury

Ohio Outdoor Sculpture Inventory

PBS
Biography, from the American Masters TV series

The Androom Archives
Five Wings

The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Fish Mobile

The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Mobile, painted steel

Toronto Sculpture, Ontario, Canada

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Alexander Calder
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
Interview from the Oral History project

Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
The Alexander Calder papers online

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Saluting Alexander Calder, American Painter in Paris

Town & Country
Mobilizing Calder (the Challenges of Exhibiting Alexander Calder)

 
Multimedia:
The Charlie Rose Interview Show (PBS)   NEW!
1998 panel discussion about the great American sculptor Alexander Calder

  
 
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Alexander Calder: Triangles Et Spirales, 1973
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Stabiles, 1963
Stabiles, 1963

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