Alexander Calder
The Iguana
1968
An official Louisiana exhibition poster kept in circulation by the museum's own shop.
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Artist
Alexander Calder
1898–1976 · American · Based in Roxbury, Connecticut & Saché, France
- Stevens Institute of Technology (Mechanical Engineering) (1919)
- Art Students League of New York (1926)
- Kinetic Sculpture
- Mobiles
- Stabiles
Alexander Calder transformed sculpture by introducing actual movement. After making the performative Cirque Calder, he developed motorized and then air-driven abstract constructions that Marcel Duchamp named 'mobiles,' alongside stationary 'stabiles.'
Sculpture; drawing; jewelry; gouache
Gallery Representation
Objects
Artist Films
Alexander Calder's Tightrope
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Major Works
- 1926–31Cirque Calder
- 1932Calderberry Bush
- 1939Lobster Trap and Fish Tail
- 1941Arc of Petals
- 1948Black Widow
- 1948Snow Flurry I
- 1969La Grande Vitesse
- 1974Flamingo
- 1956Red Mobile
- 1973Stegosaurus
Museums & Public Collections
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