Balcony, Hart Senate Office building, via portal of Alexander Calder's "Mountains and Clouds" Stabile, Washington, D.C., March 18, 2026
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Cardboard + paint + a little Calder energy = sculptures kids are genuinely proud of. The balance and movement concepts he explored translate shockingly well to a classroom table. 🎨📦 #AlexanderCalder #ArtForKids #SculptureKids
I told the staff as I was leaving that I felt high. Heading out onto the Parkway in the dark and quiet of the city, I walked around for an hour, taking it all in, incredibly buzzed. Days later, I still am.
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The performance did exactly what it was supposed to do: It had me rethinking my relationship with Calder Gardens - a space I have been to many times since it opened last September; now in a different light.
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It was held in the main gallery - if you haven’t been, you are missing one the world’s treasures - at 7:21pm, sunset after the spring equinox and was introduced by senior director of programs Juana Berrío.
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had a spectacular Saturday evening at the inaugural “Artists as Gardens” at Calder Gardens - a commissioned concert by the artist, composer, musician, and fascinating Gryphon Rue.
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Untitled sculpture metal and paint 1974 Alexander Calder (1898-1976) USA #untitled #sculpture #mobile #handmade #metal #paint #abstract #primarycolors #alexandercalder #c1974 #americanart #modernart #caldermobile
Untitled sculpture
metal and paint
1974
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
USA
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From the Reading Room – "How Alexander Calder Haunted My 2025 Narrative"
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*Pics (and quite a long essay about domestic design) or it didn't happen #Toasters #everydayweird #AlexanderCalder
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Spiny, vers 1939 - Alexander Calder : sculpteur américain (1898-1976), célèbre pour ses mobiles, sculptures abstraites en mouvement.
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Currently working on a blog post about how Alexander Calder haunted my 2025 narrative.
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'Tank Trap'
lithograph
1975
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
USA
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Constellation with Quadrilateral
1943
Alexander Calder
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Peggy Guggenheim in her bedroom in Venice with an Alexander Calder silver wire artwork/headboard on the wall behind her bed c. 1946.
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'Praying Mantis' sculpture
Wood, rod, wire, string, and paint
78" × 51" × 40"
1936
Alexander Calder
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#FunFactFriday: In 1937, sculptor #AlexanderCalder created a fountain that flows with pure #mercury. More than art, it reflected Spain’s Almadén mines, a place of wealth & suffering. Today, the fountain still flows at Fundació Joan Miró in #Barcelona, safely sealed behind glass. #ScienceRallye
Alexander Calder’s interest in astronomy and the cosmos led him to create a series of delicate works he called Constellations. This is the most complex one. His uncharacteristic use of wood was due to the scarcity of scrap metal during World War II. The colorful “bomb” also refers to war. Unlike his suspended mobiles, which drift slowly through space, Calder’s Constellations do not move, yet their organic shapes cast shadows that shift with the light. The appearance of these open, linear structures constantly alters as we move past them.
Vertical Constellation with Bomb
wood, metal
1943
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
One of his sculptures from the 'Constellation' series.
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Excellent show at the Whitney Museum – High Wire: Calder's Circus at 100. Calder's wireworks are so ingenius and fun! Delightful! https://whitney.org/exhibitions/calders-circus #art #museums #nyc #circus #alexandercalder 📷 @thecuriousg.bsky.social
Excellent show at the Whitney Museum – High Wire: Calder's Circus at 100. Calder's wireworks are so ingenius and fun! Delightful! whitney.org/exhibitions/...
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By the 1960s, Alexander Calder had established a successful, international career as an artist. During that decade, he received numerous awards, exhibited his sculptures and paintings in gallery shows in New York and Paris and in museum retrospectives at the Tate Gallery in London, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris. At the same time, Calder maintained a very high rate of production, working on large-scale sculpture commissions as well as small works like this untitled standing mobile. Calder created his first kinetic sculptures in 1931, and Marcel Duchamp began referring to the works as "mobiles." At first, Calder's mobiles were motorized, but he quickly realized that he could propel his works through ambient air currents. Calder worked persistently throughout his career on variations of his abstract mobiles (suspended moving sculptures), standing mobiles (anchored moving sculptures), and stabiles (stationary constructions). The scale of his sculptures varies widely, from colossal outdoor stabiles to diminutive standing mobiles. Though he often made small maquettes as part of the design process for large sculptures, he meant the majority of his small sculptures to be artworks in their own rights. For this untitled standing mobile, Calder employed his hallmark form--colorful, abstract shapes suspended on carefully balanced systems of wire hangers. Calder's interests in physics, astronomy, and kinetics, coupled with his involvement in the Abstraction-Création group of artists in Paris, informed the primary colors and geometric and organic shapes he used in his carefully engineered constructions. Engineering skill, artistic genius, elegance, and playfulness all characterize Calder's ouvre. Describing his motives, Calder told an interviewer, "I want to make things that are fun to look at, that have no propaganda value whatsoever."
Untitled Standing Mobile
sheet metal, brass, wire, paint
1965
Alexander Calder
(1898-1976)
Calder told an interviewer, "I want to make things that are fun to look at, that have no propaganda value whatsoever."
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'Big Bird' sculpture
painted metal
1937
Alexander Calder
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Skate amidst Calders, Miro, Elsworth Kelly and more-- click the link to read the preview in the Picture This Post Museum section--
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A bright yellow book cover with one of sculptor Alexander Calder's black wire pieces shaped as a trapeze artist hanging upside down. In his hands he holds the title of the book, spelled out in letters made of red wire. The title of the book is Calder's Circus.
A book titled 'Sargent and Italy'. A detail from a John Singer Sargent painting shows a paved stone courtyard with a water well and several figures. A mysterious female figure dressed in white, but draped in large black shawl, appears to walk towards us. Her face is hidden.
A book entitled 'Milton Avery' by Robert Hobbs. The cover is one of the artist's lyrical abstract seascapes, in shades of blue and black. A lighter blue color in the foreground suggests a shoreline.
A book entitled 'Paintbrushes and Pistols: How the Taos Artists Sold the West', by Sherry Clayton Taggett and Ted Schwarz. The cover is an oil painting in warm colors of a Native American man wearing a red shirt and tall light brown hat. His left eye is only partially visible under the floppy hat's brim. A wall behind him is yellow-gold. Bright sunlight appears to be illuminating one side of his face. The other is in shadow. The shaded side shows his other eye clearly, looking straight at the viewer.
#ArtBooks I'm shipping to new homes this morning. 👇
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'Josephine Baker' sculpture
wire on wood base
1926
Alexander Calder
(1898-1976)
#sculpture #wiresculpture #modernart #modernsculpture #josephinebaker #circa1926 #alexandercalder #20thcenturysculpture #americancraft #metalsmith
Alexander Calder
Hommage to Mondrian, 1965
gouache and ink on paper
107.5 × 75 cm
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