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Alexander Calder Biography
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1898 |
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Born: in Philadelphia, PA
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1909 |
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Parents provide him with a workshop at age eleven
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1919 |
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Graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ
Worked as engineer at logging camp in Washington state
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1923 |
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Moved to New York, NY and attended Art Students League
Worked as illustrator for newspapers and advertisers
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1925 |
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Employed at Central Park Zoo and Bronx Zoo, New York, NY
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1926 |
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Attended Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, France
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1931 |
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Settled in Paris, France
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1933 |
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Moved back to the U.S. and buys house in Roxbury, CT
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1939 |
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Commissioned to make mobile installed in main stairwell of Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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1949 |
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Constructed largest mobile to date, hung over main stairwell of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
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1952 |
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Awarded grand prize for sculpture, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
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1957 - 1958 |
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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
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1967 - 1968 |
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Sculpture commissions for Expo ’67 in Montreal and 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City
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1976 |
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Died: in New York, NY
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2008
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"Alexander Calder: Gouaches", Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York City, NY (solo)
"Alexander Calder Jewlery", Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL (solo)
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2007
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"Focus: Alexander Calder", MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY (solo)
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2006
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"The Surreal Calder", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , San Francisco, CA; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
"Calder in Brazil", Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (solo)
"I Think Best in Wire: Alexander Calder", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
"Calder Gouaches: 1942-1976", PaceWildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
"Calder: From Model to Monument", PaceWildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
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2005
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"Alexander Calder: Two Monumental Sculptures", Gagosian Gallery, New York., NY (solo)
"Alexander Calder", Samuel Vanhoegaerden Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium (solo)
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2004
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"Alexander Calder", Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (solo)
"Calder: Gravedad y la Gracia", Museo Nacional - Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (solo)
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2003
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"Calder: Gravedad y la Gracia", Fundacion del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain (solo)
"Alexander Calder", Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA (solo)
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2002
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"Calder '76: The Cutouts", PaceWildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
"Alexander Calder: Motion and Color", Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan (solo)
"Calder: Four Maquettes, Two Stabiles and a Little Bird Too", Ameringer Fine Arts, New York, NY (solo)
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2001
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"Alexander Calder: Motion and Color", Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan (solo)
"Alexander Calder in Focus", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (solo)
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2000
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"Earthly Forms: The Biomorphic Sculpture of Arp, Calder and Noguchi", PaceWildenstein, New York, NY
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1999
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"An Adventurous Spirit: Calder at The Phillips Collection", Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C (solo)
"Alexander Calder", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
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1998
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"Alexander Calder: 1898-1976", National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and SF MoMA (solo)
"Flying Colors: The Innovation and Artistry of Alexander Calder", San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose , CA (solo)
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1996
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"Alexander Calder: 1898-1976", Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (solo)
"Celebrating Calder", The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (solo)
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1994
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"Calder", Bibliotheque Municipale and Abbaye Saint-Germain, Auxerre, France (solo)
"Calder Gallery Installation", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (solo)
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1993
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"Alexander Calder from the Collection of the Ruth and Leonard J. Horwich Family", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (solo)
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1992
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"Celebrating Calder", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
"Alexander Calder", Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (solo)
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1989 - 1990
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"The Intimate World of Alexander Calder", Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York, NY; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
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1987 - 1988
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"Alexander Calder: Sculptures of the Nineteen Thirties", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
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1984
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"Calder", Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela (solo)
"Des Stabiles et des Mobiles de Calder", Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (solo)
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1982
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"Tapices de Alexander Calder", Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
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1981
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"Alexander Calder: A Concentration of Works from the Permanent Collection", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
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1978
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"Images de Calder", Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (solo)
"Calder's Universe", San Jose Museum of Art, CA; Portland Art Museum, OR; Phoenix Art Museum, AZ (solo)
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1977
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"Alexander Calder Memorial", American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY (solo)
"Calder's Universe", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; High Art Musuem, Atlanta, GA (solo)
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1976
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"Calder", Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
"Retrospective", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
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1963 - 1964
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"Calder gouache show", Perls Gallery, New York (solo)
"Retrospective", Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (solo)
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1962
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"Retrospective", Tate Gallery, London, UK
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1950
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Galerie Maeght, Paris, France (solo)
"Retrospective", Masachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (solo)
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1943
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"Retrospective", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA (solo)
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1932
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Julien Levy Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1929
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Galerie Billiet, Paris, France (solo)
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1928
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Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1926
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Artist's Gallery, New York, NY
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Selected Public Collections:
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Dallas Museum of Art, TX
Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid, Spain
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York , NY
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
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| Literature |
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2005
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Rosenthal, Mark, and Alexander S. C. Rower. The Surreal Calder. Houston, TX: The Menil Collection, 2005
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1998
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Guerrero, Pedro E. Calder at Home. The Joyous Environment of Alexander Calder. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1998
Prather, Marla. Alexander Calder 1898 - 1976. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1998
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1966
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Calder, Alexander. An Autobiography With Pictures. New York: Pantheon Books, 1966
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