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Original works by Alexander Calder available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
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
Requires Flash: Click on "Artist Index", then on "C"
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)
Professional Tools:
Artprice
Alexander Calder copyright requests handled by the Artists Rights Society.
Dickinson Agents and Dealers in Fine Art, London, UK -- Notable past sales NEW!
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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