Alexander Calder - Selected Works

Selected Works

  • Dog (1909), folded brass sheet; this was made as a present for Calder's parents
  • The Flying Trapeze (1925), oil on canvas, 36 x 42 in.
  • Elephant (c. 1928), wire and wood, 11½ x 5¾ x 29.2 in.
  • Two Acrobats (ca. 1928), Brass wire, painted wood base, Honolulu Museum of Art
  • Aztec Josephine Baker (c. 1929), wire, 53" x 10" x 9". A representation of Josephine Baker, the exuberant lead dancer from La revue nègre at the Folies Bergère.
  • Untitled (1931), wire, wood and motor; one of the first kinetic mobiles.
  • Feathers (1931), wire, wood and paint; first true mobile, although designed to stand on a desktop
  • Cône d'ébène (1933), ebony, metal bar and wire; early suspended mobile (first was made in 1932).
  • Form Against Yellow (1936), sheet metal, wire, plywood, string and paint; wall-supported mobile.
  • Object with Yellow Background (1936), Painted wood, metal, string, Honolulu Museum of Art
  • Mercury Fountain (1937), sheet metal and liquid mercury (element) metal
  • Devil Fish (1937), sheet metal, bolts and paint; first piece made from a model.
  • 1939 New York World's Fair (maquette) (1938), sheet metal, wire, wood, string and paint
  • Necklace (c. 1938), brass wire, glass and mirror
  • Sphere Pierced by Cylinders (1939), wire and paint; the first of many floor standing, life size stabiles (predating Anthony Caro's plinthless sculptures by two decades)
  • Lobster Trap and Fish Tail (1939), sheet metal, wire and paint (suspended mobile); design for the stairwell of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Black Beast (1940), sheet metal, bolts and paint (freestanding plinthless stabile)
  • S-Shaped Vine (1946), sheet metal, wire and paint (suspended mobile)
  • Sword Plant (1947) sheet metal, wire and paint (standing mobile)
  • Snow Flurry (1948), sheet metal, wire and paint (suspended mobile)
  • Stillman House Mural (1952), (pool mural) http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/images/detail/stillman-house-i-881
  • .125 (1957), steel plate, rods and paint
  • La spirale (1958), steel plate, rod and paint, 360" high; public monumental mobile for Maison de l'U.N.E.S.C.O., Paris
  • Guillotine pour huit (1962), at the LaM, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
  • Teodelapio (1962), steel plate and paint, monumental stabile, Spoleto, Italy
  • La Grande Voile (The Big Sail) (1966), a 33-ton metal sculpture composed of five intersecting forms, four planes, and one curve. It stands 40 feet tall, on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • Man (1967) stainless steel plate, bolts and paint, 65' x 83' x 53', monumental stabile, Montreal Canada
  • Gwenfritz (1968) National Museum of American History
  • La grande vitesse (1969), steel plate, bolts and paint, 43' x 55' x 25', Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • Peau Rouge Indiana (1970), steel plate, bolts and paint, 40' x 32' x 33', Bloomington, Indiana
  • Reims, Croix du Sud (1970), at the LaM, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
  • Eagle (1971), steel plate, bolts and paint, 38'9" x 32'8" x 32'8", Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington
  • White and Red Boomerang (1971), Painted metal, wire, Honolulu Museum of Art
  • Stegosaurus (1973), steel plate, bolts and paint, 50' tall, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
  • Cheval Rouge (Red Horse)(1974), red painted sheet metal, at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
  • Flamingo (1974), red painted steel, at the Federal Plaza, Chicago, Illinois
  • The Red Feather (1975), black and red painted steel, 11' x 6'3" x 11'2", The Kentucky Center
  • Untitled (1976), aluminum honeycomb, tubing and paint, 358½ x 912", National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.
  • L'Araignée Rouge (The Red Spider) (1976), 15m tall, monumental sculpture, Paris La Défense France
  • Mountains and Clouds (1976), painted aluminum and steel, 612 inches x 900 inches, Hart Senate Office Building

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