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Alexander Calder
[American Abstract Kinetic Artist, 1898-1976]
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| I love red so much that I almost want to paint everything red. - Alexander Calder |
Alexander Calder Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into these different tabs:
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Alexander Calder at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
William Penn, 1886
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Click "View all" to see a total of 14 works online
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
"Artists in Depth" page for Alexander Calder
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut
The museum has a collection of works by Calder
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
The Crab, 1962
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
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 NEW!
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Alexander Calder at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Red Lily
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
4 works online
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Information about a 2008 exhibition
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
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
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
Brighton & Hove Museums, England
Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Connecticut
Information about a 2009-2010 exhibition: Alexander Calder: Printmaker
Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Connecticut
Elephant, ca.1945-55
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
DePaul University Museum, Chicago
Boomerang, lithograph, 1975
Dublin City Gallery | The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland NEW!
Fundació Suñol, Barcelona
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
Red mobile
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
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, Omaha, Nebraska
Numbered One to Seven, 1950
Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "C"
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Lille Metropole Musee d'Art Moderne, France (in French)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
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
Black, Two Discs in the Air
Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, Indiana
Pyramids, 1975
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
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
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Tricolor on Pyramid, 1965
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Grasshopper, ca.1947
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Caracas, 1955
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California
Untitled, gouache on paper, 1966
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
Composition
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
The Whirling Ear
Mobile
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Seattle Art Museum
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Snake on Arch
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
Untitled, lithograph
U.S. Senate Art Collection
Mountains and Clouds
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
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
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Hanging Mobile, 1951
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Hooked Rug
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National 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)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Calder Foundation
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 100-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
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
The Three, 1966
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
Crabs, gouache, 1961
Art + Auction Magazine
Artist Dossier -- "The American sculptor's mobiles and stabiles still dominate his auction market, but his quirkier creations now have their own following"
Alexander Calder at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1971 interview from the Oral History project
Alexander Calder at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
The Alexander Calder papers online
The Art Story
The New York Observer
"Saluting Alexander Calder, American Painter in Paris", article by Hilton Kramer
The New Yorker
"Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933" at the Whitney, brief 2008 review by Peter Schjeldahl
The New Yorker
"Grand Intuitions: Calder's Monumental Sculpture" at Storm King Art Center, 2001 review by Peter Schjeldahl
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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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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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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