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- In September 1943, when Calder was just 45 years old, MoMA presented Alexander Calder: Sculptures and Constructions, a career survey of the artist’s work which made him the youngest artist at that point to have been given a retrospective.
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- 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.
Dec 19, 2015 · Alexander Calder (1898–1976), whose career spanned more than half a century, continued to reinvent himself well into the later decades of his life.
In 1963, Calder completed construction of a large studio overlooking the Indre Valley. With the assistance of a full-scale, industrial ironworks, he began to fabricate his monumental works in France and devoted much of his later working years to public commissions.
Calder's first retrospective was held in 1938 at George Walter Vincent Smith Gallery in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1943, the Museum of Modern Art hosted a Calder retrospective, curated by James Johnson Sweeney and Marcel Duchamp; the show had to be extended due to the number of visitors. [36]
Jan 8, 2018 · Artists themselves, Calder’s mother and father would eventually lend these early creations to the Museum of Modern Art in 1943 for their son’s first New York retrospective. Calder was a pioneer of 20th-century sculpture, among the first to endow his works with a fourth dimension: movement.
Oct 21, 2022 · Sandy Rower, Calder’s grandson and president of the Calder Foundation, was in London for the opening of the show – and was quick to point out that this wasn’t a simple retrospective. The show starts with Calder’s early output from his time in 1920s Paris and finishes with works from the early 1950s.
