Received several commissions for large-scale public sculpture, including a mobile for JFK Airport commissioned by Port Authority of New York and a stabile for UNESCO Paris headquarters Alexander ...
Welcome to “On the Block”: ELLE Decor’s series where we spotlight one spectacular piece going up for auction. Get your paddles ready. The Pennsylvania-born artist originally gifted Painted Wood to ...
The best Calder publications, from a comprehensive two-volume biography to a children’s book about his moveable ...
Before you knew what “art” was. Before you could even walk or talk, Alexander Calder was influencing your life. If your parents hung a mobile over your crib, he was. Calder can’t be credited for ...
“I bought this print from the Detroit Institute of Arts in the late 1970s or early 1980s,” Deborah Kashdan wrote in an email to the column with what she knew about the piece in her collection and ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The papers of abstract kinetic artist and sculptor Alexander Calder measure 2.6 linear feet and date from 1926 to 1967. Found within the papers ...
Most people know Alexander Calder as the inventor of the mobile, a kinetic sculpture that hangs in space. But like his friend Georgia O'Keeffe, he is a familiar and beloved figure to such an extent ...
A collector says the Calder Foundation sunk the value of an $8 million mobile by Alexander Calder by deciding it was too damaged to still be viewed as a work by the artist. By Graham Bowley These ...