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Aug 21, 2017 · 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. “I thought this would do for a wedding ring,” the American sculptor recalled in 1966.
- Alexander Calder was born in Philadelphia in 1898 to a family of artists. His mother was a painter, and his father, Alexander Stirling, and grandfather, Alexander Milne, were both well-established sculptors.
- Technically, Calder’s first kinetic sculpture was of a duck, which he presented to his mother as a Christmas gift in 1909. It was made from a formed, brass sheet and rocked back and forth when touched.
- Although Calder is known internationally as an artist, he initially studied mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ.
- While working as an illustrator for the National Police Gazzette, Calder began taking evening drawing classes at the 42 Street New York Public School; a year later, he began studying painting at the Arts Students League with John Sloan and George Luks.
Nov 11, 2020 · Calder and his wife Louisa James moved to Connecticut in 1933. They purchased an old farmhouse in Roxbury, painted the main house flat black, and converted the old ice house into a studio where Calder created his art.
Feb 5, 2024 · American artist Alexander Calder was an innovative artist whose imaginative and kinetic sculptures greatly influenced 20th-century art. Throughout his lengthy career, Calder formed wire and metal into dynamic sculptures that pushed the boundaries of conventional art.
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- Lawnton, Pennsylvania, United States
- Surrealism and kinetic art
- 22 July 1898
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 ...
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Jan 8, 2018 · Calder had married Louisa James a year earlier, and Perl argues that her family’s wealth may have granted the artist the financial freedom to create more experimental work. A few short months after Croisière, he ventured even further—adding manually propelled and motorized elements to similar abstract sculptures.
