ALEXANDER CALDER VINTAGE MODERN ART CIRCUS LITHOGRAPH POSTER OLD WHITNEY MUSEUM

Description: ALEXANDER CALDER (American 1898-1976) MEDIUM: LITHOGRAPH POSTER TITLE: CALDERS CIRCUS WHITNEY MUSEUM CIRCA 1972 GOOD VINTAGE CONDITION. MILD WRINKLES, AS SHOWN. COLLECTORS ITEM. DIMENSIONS: 23” W x 32” H PROVENANCE: BILLY HORK GALLERIES LTD. BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA. Alexander (Sandy) Calder (1898 - 1976) was active/lived in Connecticut, New York / France. Alexander Calder is known for Kinetic sculpture, modernist drawing. Alexander (Sandy) Calder Born: 1898 - Lawnton, Pennsylvania Died: 1976 - New York City Name variants: Sandy Calder One of America's best known sculptors, "Sandy" Calder became most famous for his kinetic abstract mobiles. He also did floor pieces, was a painter in watercolor, oil and gouache, did etchings and serigraphs, and made jewelry and tapestries as well designed theater stage settings and architectural interiors. His art reflects his reputation of being a beloved, decent human being who continually searched for fun and humor in that around him. He was highly independent from luxuries and focused on creativity. His last words, "I'll do it myself", tell the story of his life. He was born in Philadelphia, the son of Alexander Sterling Calder and the grandson of Alexander Milne Calder, well-known sculptors of public monumental works. His mother, Nanette Lederer Calder, was a professional portrait painter. Obviously he was nurtured in an environment of art, and from an early age, he was making figures from found objects. Because of the father's ill health and the necessity for a drier climate, the family moved to Oracle, Arizona in 1905, and five years later to Pasadena, California. When Sandy was a teenager, the family returned to Pennsylvania. He was unable to make a decision about a vocation, but his fascination with machines led to his earning a degree in mechanical engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1919. He tried a variety of jobs including working in the boiler room of a cruise ship. In 1923, he enrolled in the Art Students League in New York City, where his teachers were John Sloan, Guy Pene Du Bois, and Boardman Robinson. In classes there he did numerous oil paintings and also humorous drawings of sporting events for the National Police Gazette. In 1925, he produced an illustrated book titled Animal Sketching, one-line drawings that foreshadowed his early wire sculptures of figures and animals. In 1926, encouraged by an engineer friend of his father to follow his talent, he went to Paris where he lived the next seven years and shortly after his arrival began doing wire sculpture. During this period, his mother gave him seventy-five dollars a month for living expenses. He assembled a "Circus," of miniature, hand activated one-wire figures with which he gave performances in his studio. These pieces were made by bending and twisting a single wire into humorous portraits, animals, and figure groups. He also met many of the leading avant-garde artists of the day including Piet Mondrian, who influenced Calder's geometric, non-objective constructions that he began producing in 1931. His floor pieces, named "stabiles" by Jean Arp, were exhibited in a gallery exhibition organized by Marcel Duchamp, who coined the word "mobile" for the hanging, kinetic pieces. Soon, Calder was creating many of these wind-driven works. Calder's mobiles were first shown in the United States in 1932, and the next year he returned to America and purchased a home in Roxbury, Connecticut where he lived the remainder of his life and gained much attention from that time. Dancer Martha Graham used several of his sculptures in her modern dance performances, and personnel at the Museum of Modern Art in New York began purchasing pieces from him including his first large-scale piece called Whale in 1937. During World War II when metal was scarce, he made mobiles and stabiles from carved, painted wood, and in the early 1950s he added to his repertoire wall pieces and mobiles that incorporated sound. Many federal agencies and businesses commissioned works by him, and most major American museums have his pieces in their collections. His death in 1976 occurred coincidentally with a major retrospective of his work at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Museums: Center for the Arts, Inc. (Vero Beach, FL) Mattatuck Museum (Waterbury, CT) Museum of Contemporary Art-Chicago (Chicago, IL) Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City, NY) Academy Art Museum (Easton, MD) Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY) Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin, OH) Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Fort Worth, TX) Art Center in Hargate Street (Concord, NH) Art Museum of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo, United States) Artists Rights Society (New York City, NY) Boca Raton Museum of Art (Boca Raton, FL) Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, OH) Chrysler Museum of Art (Norfolk, VA) Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati, OH) Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (Colorado Springs, CO) Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR) Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, TX) Delaware Art Museum (Wilmington, DE) Denver Art Museum (Denver, CO) Fine Arts Collection, Luther College (Decorah, IA) Flint Institute of Arts (Flint, MI) Fogg Art Museum: Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA) Frederick R Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, MN) Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, CUNY (Flushing, NY) Grand Rapids Art Museum (Grand Rapids, MI) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC) Howard University Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) Hunter Museum of American Art (Chattanooga, TN) Indianapolis Museum of Art (Indianapolis, IN) Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art (Denver, CO) Kresge Art Museum (East Lansing, MI) Madison Museum of Fine Art (Madison, GA) Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum (San Antonio, TX) Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art (Evanston, IL) Memorial Art Gallery (Rochester, NY) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, NY) Michael C Carlos Museum (Atlanta, GA) Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts (Springfield, MA) Midwest Museum Of American Art (Elkhart, IN) Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, MN) MIT-List Visual Arts Center (Cambridge, MA) Musees Nationaux Paris (Paris, France) Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia (Columbia, MO) Museum of Art at Brigham Young University (Provo, UT) Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, TX) National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (Washington, DC) National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian (Washington, DC) National Museum of Wildlife Art (Jackson Hole, WY) National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC) Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY) New Jersey State Museum (Trenton, NJ) North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh, NC) Oklahoma City Museum of Art (Oklahoma City, OK) Orlando Museum of Art (Orlando, FL) Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty Museum (Milwaukee, WI) Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice, Italy) Pensacola Museum Of Art (Pensacola, FL) Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix, AZ) Portland Art Museum, Oregon (Portland, OR) Portland Museum of Art, Maine (Portland, ME) Reynolda House-Museum of American Art (Winston-Salem, NC) Rhode Island School of Design-Museum of Art (Providence, RI) Saint Louis Art Museum (St. Louis, MO) San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego, CA) Scotland Natl. Gallery of Mod Art (Edinburgh, Scotland) Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, NE) Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York City, NY) Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Loretto, PA) Storm King Art Center (Mountainville, NY) Swope Art Museum (Terre Haute, IN) The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH) The Art Museum, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) The Canton Museum of Art (Canton, OH) The Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio (Columbus, OH) The Empire State Plaza Art Collection (Albany, NY) The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art (Norman, OK) The Hickory Museum of Art (Hickory, NC) The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota, FL) The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO) The Newark Museum (Newark, NJ) The Old Jail Art Center (Albany, TX) The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA) The Phillips Collection (Washington, DC) The Phillips Museum of Art (Lancaster, PA) The Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, OH) The University of Arizona Museum of Art (Tucson, AZ) The University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor, MI) Town Linz Gallery/Wolfgang Gurlitt (Linz, Austria) University of California Berkeley Art Museum (Berkeley, CA) University of Wyoming Art Museum (Laramie, WY) USC Fisher Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, CT) Worcester Art Museum (Worcester, MA) Wright Museum of Art (Beloit, WI) Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT)

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