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Aug 21, 2017 · Photo © Van Vechten Trust. Artwork © 2017 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. In 1930, a 32-year old Alexander Calder presented his soon-to-be wife Louisa James with a small ring. He’d crafted the piece with the help of a Parisian jeweler, carefully hammering the gold into a delicate spiral.
Mar 14, 2017 · Published on 14 March 2017. With prints on her walls by Calder, Klee and Keith Haring, Cath Kidston has long been an avid collector, and the London Original Print Fair has been the designer’s hunting ground. Martin Gayford went to see the works adorning her Gloucestershire home.
Rack with grills and utensils (c. 1935–45), Roxbury house kitchen, 1950. Photograph by Herbert Matter. Grill, c. 1940. The essence of Calder’s politics can be found in these humble pursuits. Calder could be demonstrably political when moved by dire or extreme situations.
Jan 8, 2018 · Indeed, many of his early works foreshadow the large-scale masterpieces for which the artist is best known today—a progression charted by art critic Jed Perl in his newly published biography Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898–1940. From wire portraits to hanging mobiles, the six works below represent significant shifts in ...
Oct 24, 2017 · This is how Jed Perl begins his biography of Calder, which—surprisingly, given his towering stature—is the first ever written on the US artist. Calder: the Conquest of Time traces how the ...
Jun 8, 2017 · No artist of the last century had a greater gift for wordplay than Marcel Duchamp, and he had a killer pun ready when he visited the American sculptor Alexander Calder’s studio one fall day...
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The first authorized biography of Alexander Calder was published this past fall. Biographer Jed Perl and Alexander “Sandy” S. C. Rower, president of the Calder Foundation, discuss the genesis of the book, the nature of genius, and preview what’s to come in the second volume with the Quarterly ’s Wyatt Allgeier.
