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Sculpture
Untitled Standing Mobile
Untitled Mobile
Alexander Calder, 1898 - 1976
Calder, Alexander
United States
1898 - 1976
Male
105 1/2 x 72 x 41 in. (268 x 182.9 x 104.1 cm)
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complete object
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64.27a: blue/yellow
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64.27b: red
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67.24c: white
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64.27d: black
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64.27e: base
Iron
Iron
1935
1935
1935
1900-2000, 20th century, from Rochester collections, sculpture
Sculpture
Alexander Calder was one of the most important and influential sculptors of the twentieth century. He is best known for his mobiles, kinetic or moving sculptures usually painted in black and the primary colors of red, yellow, and blue.
Calder’s sculptures delight people of all ages for their charm, whimsy, and grace. If this mobile, with its rather bulky counter-weight, seems less graceful than some of Calder’s others, it may be because it is one of the earliest of his mobiles made for the outdoors. Created in 1935 of iron rather than the artist’s typical sheet metal, it is a very rare and relatively large early example. Soon after this, Calder would work in metal far less frequently. As the U.S. geared up for the World War II effort, metal became a very scarce material.
This sculpture was given to the Memorial Art Gallery by Charlotte Whitney Allen, who commissioned it in 1934 for her garden on Oliver Street in Rochester.
[Summer 2015]
1964.27
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
64.27TR1
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Memorial Art Gallery
4 x 5
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64.27TR2
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Memorial Art Gallery
In Situ 2000
2 1/4 x 2 3/4
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64.27SL1
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full- in Gallery
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64.27SL2
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full-studio
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negative
full
4 x 5
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64.27DI2
digital image
Memorial Art Gallery
Imaging complete
8/3/2000
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64.27DI1
digital image
Memorial Art Gallery
Imaging complete
7/10/2000
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64.27SL3
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in situ-1935
2 x 2
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64.27SL4
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full-in situ 2000
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64.27DI#4
digital image
1/11/2016
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64.27DI#5
digital image
1/11/2016
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