When I was little I went to the Whitney Museum over and over to see “Cirque Calder,” Alexander Calder’s three-dimensional cartoon of performers preening, frozen in mise-en-scène. In an early film, ...

In the past 100 years, no visual artist has contributed more to the sum total of human happiness than Alexander Calder. If you think about it, this generating of happiness, to the extent to which it ...

To some, Alexander Calder's aerial sculptures appear more like an oversized version of the mobiles over a child's crib. To those in the art world, they expressed a synthesis of abstract ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Too much often is made of biography in attempts to pinpoint origins of an artist’s work, but in the case of Alexander Calder, known for his mobiles, “stabiles” and kinetic works made ...

Engineering a mobile is subtle and complex. Weight, length, mass, horizontals, verticals, balance, motion and rotation all have to be considered. Everything is connected. The kneebone connected to the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Block print invitation printed on the ...

In “Calder: The Conquest of Time; The Early Years: 1898-1940,” the first biography of the artist, we see a picture of two brass animal figures that Alexander Calder crafted when he was 11. One is a ...