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