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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

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

 


 
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Original works by Alexander Calder available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Notable SiteArt Institute of Chicago

Notable SiteFine Arts Museums of San Francisco
6 works by Alexander Calder

Notable SiteGuggenheim Museum, New York City

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

Notable SiteMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Notable SiteMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

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

Notable SiteNational Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

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

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

Notable SiteNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2 works by Calder

Notable SiteNational Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Jacaranda

Notable SiteNorton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Notable SitePeggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
3 works online

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

Notable SitePeggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Arc of Petals, 1941

Notable SiteSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Notable SiteStädel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Red Lily

Notable SiteThe 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

Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia

Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana   NEW!
Three Worms and A New Moon, 1949

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

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

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

Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana

Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah

Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Balloons

Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Untitled

Centre Pompidou, Paris (in French)  
Information about the 2009 exhibition Alexander Calder. Les années parisiennes (1926-1933)

Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Untitled, 1946

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

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
5 works online

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
2 works online

DePaul University Museum, Chicago
Boomerang, lithograph, 1975

Fundació Suñol, Barcelona   NEW!

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

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

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

Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
Pregnant Whale, 1963

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

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

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

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "C"

Alexander Calder in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
(Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)

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

Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont   NEW!
Black, Two Discs in the Air

Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, Indiana
Pyramids, 1975

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota

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

Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas

National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Caracas, 1955

Palm Springs Desert Museum, California   NEW!
Untitled, gouache on paper, 1966

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by Alexander Calder online

Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona   NEW!

Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida   NEW!
Composition

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey   NEW!

Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid   NEW! (in Spanish)  

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"

Seattle Art Museum

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

Sweeney Art Gallery at U.C. Riverside, California   NEW!
Untitled, lithograph

Tate Gallery, London, UK

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)

Wichita Art Museum, Kansas   NEW!

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Art Fund for UK Museums

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)

 
Pictures from Image Archives:
Notable SiteWikimedia Commons Image Database  

Notable SiteWorld Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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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
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos 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 Dedicated to the Artist:
Calder Foundation

 
Miscellaneous Sites:
Art Collection of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Virginia
Composition, 37/140, 1973

Dickinson Agents and Dealers in Fine Art, London, UK -- Notable past sales

Los Angeles Police Department, Art Theft Detail
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 and Reference Sites:
Notable SiteEncyclopedia 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

Notable SiteGrove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)  

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

Notable SiteWikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)   NEW!  

Alexander Calder at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1971 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

Time Magazine
"The Merry Modernist", 1998 article by Robert Hughes

Time Magazine
"Calder's Universe", 1976 article by Robert Hughes

 
Multimedia:
Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Appraisals   NEW!
"1958 Alexander Calder Maquette"

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


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Search Inside Books:Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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Alexander Calder, 1898-1976


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Calder: 1898-1976


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Animal Sketching (Dover)


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Calder In Connecticut


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Alexander Calder and His Magical Mobiles


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

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Alexander Calder: Sky Swirl (LE)
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Alexander Calder: Beastie (LE)
Beastie (LE)

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Alexander Calder: Mobiles
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Convection
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Stabiles, 1963
Stabiles, 1963

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