Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder
Lawnton (en) ni Philadelphia (mul) , Silimin gɔli July 22, 1898
O ya Tiŋgbaŋ	America
Kpibu shee	New York, Silimin gɔli November 11, 1976
Ŋ-ŋɔ kum	(cardiovascular disease (en) )
Ba	Alexander Stirling Calder
Education
Shikuru shɛli o ni chaŋ	yili Académie de la Grande Chaumière (en) Stevens Institute of Technology (en)
Bala yɛlibu, sabbu bee buɣisibu	Silmiinsili
Tuma
Tuma	sculptor (en) , Pɛnta-pɛnta, foot ŋmara, designer (en) , jewelry designer (en) , illustrator (en) , printmaker (en) , drawer (en) ni manufacturer (en)
Tuma shee	Calvi (en) , Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Madrid, Málaga (en) , Palma (en) , Tarragona (en) , London, Sherman (en) , Florida, New York ni Oshkosh
Notable work	Araignée rouge (en) Flamingo (en) Horizontal (en) Man, Three Discs (en)
Pin' shɛŋa o ni dee	view Golden Lion Goslarer Kaiserring  (1977) Presidential Medal of Freedom
Nira zaŋti	American Academy of Arts and Letters (en) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (en)
Laɣingu	kinetic art (en) modern art (en)
Yupapaa	Calder, Sandy, 1898-1976
Nuu tuunbaŋsim balibu	abstract art (en) public art (en)
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For other people named Alexander Calder, see Alexander Calder (disambiguation).

Alexander "Sandy" Calder (/ˈkɔːldər/; July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) o daa nyɛla America nuuni tuunbaŋda ŋun mɛri binyɛra Calder dii bi yu ni o maŋmaŋa niŋdi vihigu kahigibu o tuma ni

Piligu biɛhigu

Alexander "Sandy" Calder nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so yuuni 1898, Lawnton, Pennsylvania.

Red Mobile, 1956, Painted sheet metal and metal rods, a signature work by Calder – Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Nintiɣili mini pina

• 1939 – First prize in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, competition for Plexiglas sculpture
• 1952 – Represented the United States at the Venice Biennale and was awarded the main prize for sculpture
• 1955 – Philadelphia Art Festival, for Pre-eminence in Art
• 1957 – Stevens Institute of Technology Honor Award for Notable Achievement
• 1958 – First Prize for Sculpture at the Pittsburgh International
• 1958 – First Prize for Sculpture in Carnegie Prize
• 1959 – Award with Carlos Raúl Villanueva at IV Bienal, Museu de Arte Moderna, Exposição Internacional de Arquitetura
• 1960 – National Institute of Arts and Letters, insignia
• 1960 – Gold Medal of Honor, the Architectural League of New York, for sculpture at UNESCO
• 1961 – Fine Arts Gold Medal for a Master of Sculpture at the American Institute of Architects
• 1962 – Art in America Annual Award for Outstanding Contribution to American Art (shared with Alfred H. Barr, Jr.)
• 1962 – Creative Arts Award for Sculpture at Brandeis University
• 1963 – President's Medal, Art Director's Club
• 1963 – Edward MacDowell Medal for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts from The MacDowell Colony
• 1964 – Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 1966 – St. Botolph Distinguished Artist Award
• 1966 – Honorary Degree, Doctor of Arts, Harvard University
• 1967 – Honorary Sponsor, Philadelphia International Festival of Short Films
• 1968 – Officier de la Légion d'honneur, Ministry of Culture, France
• 1968 – New York State Award
• 1969 – Honorary Degree of Doctor of Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology
• 1969 – Key to the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan
• 1969 – Granted the same droit de suite rights as French authors
• 1969 – Honorary Degree of Doctor of Arts, Grand Valley State College
• c.1970 – Monnaie de Paris, 2 Calder coins
• 1971 – The Gold Medal for Sculpture, National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 1973 – Honorary Degree, Doctor of Fine Arts, University of Hartford
• 1974 – Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur, Ministry of Culture, France
• 1974 – Saint Pierre des Corps
• 1974 – Citoyen d'Honneur, Commune de Sáche, France
• 1974 – Official Mayoral Decree of "Alexander Calder Day in Chicago" (October 25, 1974)
• 1974 – Honorary Citizen of Chicago
• 1974 – Grand Prix National des Art et Lettres, Ministry of Culture, France
• 1975 – U.N. Peace Medal
• 1975 – Liberty Bell, City of Philadelphia
• 1975 – United Nations Peace Medal
• 1976 – Official Cachet, presented to Calder as designer of the WFUNA Cachet on the first day of issue
• 1977 – Posthumously awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
• 1977 – Goslarer Kaiserring
• 1983 – United States Mint issues a half-ounce gold medallion honoring Calder
• 1998 – US Postal Service issues a set of five 32-cent stamps honoring Calder

Anfooninima

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  L'empennage (1953), Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
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  Acoustic Ceiling (1953),
  Aula Magna, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
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  La Ciudad (1960), Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas - Venezuela
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  The Four Elements (1961), Moderna Museet, installation at the museum entrance
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  Le tamanoir (The Anteater) (1963),
  Rotterdam, Netherlands
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  Têtes et queue (Heads and tail) (1965),
  Berlin, Germany
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  De tre vingarna (The Three Wings) (1967), Blå Stället, Angered, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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  Untitled (1968), Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
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  Three Disks, One Lacking (1968), Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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  Bobine (Bobbin) (1970), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
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  Le hallebardier (The Halberdier) (1971), Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
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  Crinkly avec disque rouge (Crinkly with Red Disk) (1973), Schlossplatz in Stuttgart, Germany
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  Feuille d'arbre (Tree leaf) (1974),
  Tel Aviv, Israel
• Flying Dragon (1975), Art Institute of Chicago
  Flying Dragon (1975), Art Institute of Chicago

Tuma shɛŋa

• Dog (1909), folded brass sheet, made as a present for Calder's parents
• The Flying Trapeze (1925), oil on canvas, 36 x 42 in.
• Elephant (c. 1928), wire and wood, 11½ x 5¾ x 29.2 in.
• Hi! (ca. 1928), brass wire, painted wood base, Honolulu Museum of Art
• Policeman (ca. 1928) wire and wood.
• Aztec Josephine Baker (1930), wire, 53" x 10" x 9". A representation of Josephine Baker, the exuberant lead dancer from La revue nègre at the Folies Bergère.
• Untitled (1931), wire, wood and motor; one of the first kinetic mobiles
• Small Feathers (1931), wire, wood and paint; first true mobile, although designed to stand on a desktop
• Cône d'ébène (1933), ebony, metal bar and wire; early suspended mobile (first was made in 1932)
• Object with Yellow Background (1936), painted wood, metal, string, Honolulu Museum of Art
• Mercury Fountain (1937), sheet metal and liquid mercury metal
• Devil Fish (1937), sheet metal, bolts and paint; first piece made from a model
• 1939 New York World's Fair (maquette) (1938), sheet metal, wire, wood, string and paint
• Necklace (c. 1938), brass wire, glass and mirror
• Sphere Pierced by Cylinders (1939), wire and paint; the first of many floor-standing, lifesize "stabiles" (predating Anthony Caro's "plinthless" sculptures by two decades)
• Lobster Trap and Fish Tail (1939), sheet metal, wire and paint (suspended mobile); design for the stairwell of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Black Beast (1940), sheet metal, bolts and paint (freestanding plinthless stabile)
• S-Shaped Vine (1946), sheet metal, wire and paint (suspended mobile)
• Sword Plant (1947) sheet metal, wire and paint (standing mobile)
• Snow Flurry (1948), sheet metal, wire and paint (suspended mobile)
• Stillman House Mural (1952), View of pool at Stillman House
• .125 (1957), steel plate, rods and paint
• Spirale (1958), steel plate, rod and paint, 360" high; public monumental mobile for Maison de l'UNESCO, Paris
• Guillotine pour huit (Guillotine for eight), (1962), at the LaM, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
• Teodelapio (1962), steel plate and paint, monumental stabile, Spoleto, Italy
• Sky Hooks (1962)
• La Grande voile (1966), a 33-ton metal sculpture composed of five intersecting forms, four planes, and one curve. It stands 40 feet (12 m) tall, on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Trois disques (1967) stainless steel plate, bolts and paint, 65' x 83' x 53', monumental stabile, Montreal Canada
• Gwenfritz (1968) National Museum of American History
• Spinal Column (1968), San Diego Museum of Art
• La Grande Vitesse, (1969), steel plate, bolts and paint, 43' x 55' x 25', Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Bent Propeller, [destroyed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001] 1970–71, 7 World Trade Center, New York City
• Peau Rouge Indiana (Red Skin Indiana) (1970), steel plate, bolts and paint, 40' x 32' x 33', Bloomington, Indiana
• Young Woman and Her Suitors (1970), painted steel, installed at exterior of AT&T Michigan Headquarters, Detroit, Michigan, displayed at corner of Michigan Avenue (Michigan) and Cass Avenue from 1973-2007. Moved for conservation and donated to Detroit Institute of Arts, currently on display at exterior of museum at John R. Street
• Reims, Croix du Sud (Reims, Cross of the South) (1970), at the LaM, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
• Eagle (1971), steel plate, bolts and paint, 38'9" x 32'8" x 32'8", Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington
• White and Red Boomerang (1971), Painted metal, wire, Honolulu Museum of Art
• "Four Arches" (1973), red painted steel plate, 63' tall Los Angeles, California
• Stegosaurus (1973), steel plate, bolts and paint, 50' tall, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
• Cheval Rouge (Red Horse) (1974), red painted sheet metal, at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
• Flamingo (1974), red painted steel, at the Federal Plaza, Chicago, Illinois
• Universe (1974), motorized "wallmobile", black, red, yellow, and blue painted steel, Willis Tower, Chicago, Illinois
• Black Flag (1974), black painted steel, Storm King Art Center, New York State
• Tripes (1974), black painted steel, Storm King Art Center
• The Arch (1975), black painted steel, Storm King Art Center
• The Red Feather (1975), black and red painted steel, 11' x 6'3" x 11'2", The Kentucky Center
• Flying Dragon (1975), red painted steel, believed to be the final stabile personally created by Alexander Calder, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Untitled (1976), aluminum honeycomb, tubing and paint, 358½ x 912", National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.
• L'Araignée Rouge (The Red Spider) (1976), 15m tall, monumental sculpture, Paris La Défense France
• Mountains and Clouds (1976), painted aluminum and steel, 612 inches x 900 inches, Hart Senate Office Building
• Calder's set for Socrate (1976), Pivotal stage sets presented in New York on the first anniversary of Calder's death
• Five Swords (1976), red painted steel, Storm King Art Center

Kundivihira

1. Baal-Teshuva, Jacob. Alexander Calder 1898–1976. Taschen, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-8228-7915-0.
2. Calder, Alexander. An Autobiography With Pictures. Pantheon Books, 1966, ISBN 978-0-394-42142-1
3. Calder Hayes, Margaret. Three Alexander Calders: A Family Memoir. Paul S. Eriksson, 1977, ISBN 0-8397-8017-6.
4. Guerrero, Pedro E. Calder at Home. The Joyous Environment of Alexander Calder. Stewart, Tabori & Chang, New York, 1998, ISBN 978-1-55670-655-4
5. Prather, Marla. Alexander Calder 1898–1976. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 1998, ISBN 978-0-89468-228-5, ISBN 978-0-300-07518-2
6. Rosenthal, Mark, and Alexander S. C. Rower. The Surreal Calder. The Menil Collection, Houston, 2005, ISBN 978-0-939594-60-3
7. Rower, Alexander S. C. Calder Sculpture. Universe Publishing, 1998, ISBN 978-0-7893-0134-5
8. Barbara Zabel, Calder's Portraits 'A New Language' (Washington, Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2012).
9. Thalacker, Donald W. The Place of Art in the World of Architecture. Chelsea House Publishers, New York, 1980.

• December 19, 2014. "Famous Artists Send Greeting Cards: An exhibit in New York showcases nearly 60 holiday cards from major artists", The Wall Street Journal. By Alexandra Wolfe.

Further reading

• Jed Perl: Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898–1940, New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017, ISBN 978-0-307-27272-0

External links

• List of Alexander Calder public artworks
• Calder Foundation website
• Atelier Calder website
• National Gallery of Art – Alexander Calder
• Tɛmplet:MoMA artist
• Smithsonian holdings of artworks by Alexander Calder Archived Silimin gɔli March 27, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
• Guggenheim collection Alexander Calder bio.
• Alexander Calder toys at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, MA
• A finding aid to the Alexander Calder papers in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
• Guide to the Calder-Hayes Family Papers at The Bancroft Library
• Calder and Braniff Airways
• Braniff Flying Colors Historical Page