There was no decree naming Alexander Calder (1898-1976) the capital’s official artist, but walking around the Mall, you’d think there had been. His abstract sheet-metal sculptures are in the ...

In the 1940s Alexander Calder began characterizing some of his famous mobiles as "constellations," reflecting the artist's fascination with the movement of stars and planets.

But if you look at the work of the late Alexander Calder—who currently has 36 sculptures on view in the show “Calder: Hypermobility” at the Whitney—it’s pretty obvious that the future ...

A rendering shows the Open Plan Gallery at Calder Gardens, a new museum planned for the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, which will be dedicated to the works of Alexander Calder. (Herzog & de Meuron) The ...

The works, created during the last 20 years of Calder’s life, from 1956 to 1976, represent a microcosm of Modernism, with elements of Cubism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and kinetic art.

Calder was born in Philadelphia in 1898 to a family of artists. His father, Alexander Stirling Calder, was a well-known sculptor and his mother, Nanette Lederer Calder, a noted painter.

Calder mobile 09 Mar 1975, Sun The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, Kansas) Newspapers.com The mobile was commissioned in 1974 by the Fourth National Bank and Trust Co. and has been described as one of the ...

I f Alexander Calder were alive to visit the kids’ department of Pottery Barn or West Elm today, he would probably feel deeply torn, which tells you a lot about America’s best-known sculptor ...

Alexander Calder's years in Paris shaped his mature work. A key moment in his artistic development came when he visited the studio of Piet Mondrian.