Across the course of more than six decades, Alexander Calder worked with materials ranging from thin pieces of wire to sheets of bolted steel, and experimented with scales and sites that encompassed ...

Of the many descriptions of Alexander Calder in Jed Perl’s new biography of him, the most telling and unexpected is this: Calder was a ‘burly man with the soul of a nightingale’. The burliness comes ...

Alexander Calder was an American artist. He was born in 1898 in Pennsylvania, USA and died in 1976. Sculptures are usually still as people walk around them, but Calder's sculptures move.

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 ...

The papers of Alexander Calder were digitized in 2006 by the Archives of American Art. The papers have been scanned in their entirety, and total 1,086 images. Funding for the processing and ...

Most people think of mobiles as simple children’s toys designed to distract babies and help them fall asleep. Yet the origin of this soothing gewgaw actually marked an important turning point in ...