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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
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
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
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:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World 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
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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:
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
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
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
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
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| 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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Alexander Calder
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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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