Alexander Calder
American, 1898-1976
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Biography
Alexander Calder
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(1898-1976)
Born in 1898, Lawnton, Pennsylvania
Died in 1976, New York, New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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Calder: In Motion, The Shirley Family Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Washington, US
Spotlight: Alexander Calder, Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama, US
Alexander Calder: A Balancing Line, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
CALDER, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Alexander Calder: Collaborative Creations, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, US
2022Intricate: Calder and the Poetry of Science, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois, US
Dissonant Harmony, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
2021
Alexander Calder: Modern from the Start, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Alexander Calder: Minimal / Maximal, Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Calder: Great Yellow Sun, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Special Guest: Calder BMW Car, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, US
Calder Now, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Calder Tower, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, US (permanent exhibition)
Calder Hillside, Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, US (permanent exhibition)
Calder Gallery, Palazzo Collicola - Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Spoleto, Italy (permanent exhibition)
2020
Calder from the Collection, Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, New York, US
2019
Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Elemental Calder, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
Alexander Calder: Pour La Grande Vitesse and other Works on Paper, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, US
Calder on Paper, K Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Alexander Calder: The Magic of a Sculptural Movement, Art Pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia
Calder Stories, Centro Botin, Santander, Spain
Alexander Calder: Pour La Grande Vitesse and Other Works on Paper, Grand Rapids, Art Museum, Michigan, US
2018
Alexander Calder: Theater of Encounters, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec, Canada
I mondi di Calder: Opere, tracce e memorie di un grande artista a Spoleto, Palazzo Medici Riccard, Florence, Italy
2017
Calder: Hypermobility, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
Calder: Forgeron des géantes libellules, Musée Soulages, Rodez, France
Alexander Calder: Scaling Up, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
An Outburst of Color, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, US
Alexander Calder: La Gouacherie, Musée Zervos, Vézelay, France
Calder: Monumental, Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, US
2016
Alexander Calder: Motion Lab, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
2015
Calder: Discipline of the Dance, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Alexander Calder: Retrospective, Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia
Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture, Tate Modern, London, UK
Frammenti Expo 1967: Alexander Calder e Emilio Vedova, Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Venice, Italy
2014
Alexander Calder at the Rijksmuseum, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Calder: Jewelry, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Ugo Mulas "Circus Calder", Kunst Meran/Merano Arte, Merano, Italy
2013
Calder, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Alexander Calder: Avant-Garde in Motion, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, US
2012
Alexander Calder: De grote ontdekking, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands
Calder Noir, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011
Calder's Portraits: A New Language, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., US
2009
Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act, Seattle Art Museum, Washington, US
Calder: Sculptor of Air, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
2008
Calder Jewelry, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, US
Alexandre Calder en Touraine, Château de Tours, France
Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926–1933, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
2006
Calder no Brasil, Pinacoteca do Estato de São Paulo, Brazil
2005
The Surreal Calder, Menil Collection, Houston, US
2004
Calder: Poetry in Motion, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2003
Calder: Gravedad y la Gracia, Fundación del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
2001
Grand Intuitions: Calder’s Monumental Sculpture, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York, US
2000
Calder in Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, US
Alexander Calder: Motion and Color, Iwaki City Art Museum, Japan
1998
Alexander Calder: 1898–1976, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., US
1997
Flying Colors: The Innovation and Artistry of Alexander Calder, San Jose Museum of Art, California, US
Calder, Fundacío Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
1995
Alexander Calder: Retrospective, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
1993
Calder: Mobiles, stabiles, gouaches, bijoux . . ., Musée Picasso, Château Grimaldi, Antibes, France
1991
Celebrating Calder, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
1989
Calder Intime, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
1986
Alexander Calder: An American Invention, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, US
1983
Calder: Mostra retrospettiva, Palazzo a Vela, Turin, Italy
1976
Calder's Universe, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
1975
Calder, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
1974
Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, Work from 1925–1974, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, US
1973
Alexander Calder: Retrospektive, Galerie Maeght, Zurich, Switzerland
1972
Calder's Circus, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
1970
A Salute to Alexander Calder, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
1969
Calder, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
1967
Calder: 19 Gifts from the Artist, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
1964
Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
1962
Alexander Calder: Sculpture–Mobiles, Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery, London, UK
1959
Alexander Calder, Stabilen, Mobilen, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1957
Alexander Calder, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1956
Calder, Perls Galleries, New York, US
1955
Exposiciòn Calder, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
1953
Alexander Calder Mobiles, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
II Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil
1952
Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers, Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, US
1950
Calder: Mobiles & Stabiles, Galerie Maeght, Paris, France
Calder, New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US
1948
Alexander Calder, Ministerio da Educaçao e Saude, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1946
Alexander Calder: Mobiles, Stabiles, Constellations, Galerie Louis Carré, Paris, France
1944
Recent Work by Alexander Calder, Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York, US
1943
17 Mobiles by Alexander Calder, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, US
Alexander Calder: Sculptures and Constructions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
1941
Mobiles by Alexander Calder, Stabiles and Jewelry, San Francisco Museum of Art, California, US
1940
Calder Jewelry, Willard Gallery, New York, US
1938
Calder Mobiles, George Walter Vincent Smith Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts, US
1937
Calder: Mobiles and Stabiles, The Mayor Gallery, London, UK
1935
Mobiles by Alexander Calder, The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Illinois, US
1934
Mobiles by Alexander Calder, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, US
1932
Calder: ses mobiles, Galerie Vignon, Paris, France
Calder: Mobiles/Abstract Sculptures, Julien Levy Gallery, New York, US
1931
Alexandre Calder: Volumes–Vecteurs–Densités/Dessins–Portraits, Galerie Percier, Paris, France
1929
Sculptures bois et fil de fer de Alexander Calder, Galerie Billiet-Pierre Vorms, Paris, France
Alexander Calder: Skulpturen aus Holz und aus Draht, Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf, Berlin, Germany
Alexander Calder: Paintings, Wood Sculpture, Toys, Wire Sculpture, Jewelry, Textiles, Fifty-Sixth Street Galleries, New York, US
1928
Wire Sculpture by Alexander Calder, Weyhe Gallery, New York, US
1927
The Galleries of Jacques Seligmann and Company, Paris, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
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2023
Vanuatu Totems & Calder Gouaches, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, US
Connecticut Modern: Art, Design, and the Avant-Garde, 1930–1960, Bruce Museum, Connecticut, US
Decades: The Art of Change 1900–1980, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
The Inner Island, Villa Carmignac, Hyères, France
2022
Facing the Sun, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, France
Friendships In Art: Collective Works, Mucem, Marseille, France
Monochrome Multitudes, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, US
Calder + Miró, Casa Roberto Marinho, Brazil
2019
Calder-Picasso, Musée national Picasso-Paris, Paris, France
2017
7 X SPACE X TIME, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
2016
Alexander Calder & Fischli/Weiss, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland
Calder and Brazilian Art, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
2015
Calder Lightness; Richard Tuttle Wire Pieces; Fred Sandback 64 Three–Part Pieces, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri, US
Marvelous Objects: Surrealist Sculpture from Paris to New York, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C, US
2013
Le Surréalisme et l'objet, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2007
Kukje Gallery: 25 Years, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2004
Calder–Miró, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland
1993
Picasso and the Age of Iron, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
1968
The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
1953
Alexander Calder: Mobiles/Naum Gabo: Kinetic Constructions and Constructions in Space, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, US
1952
XXVI Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
1949
Third International Exhibition of Sculpture, Philadelphia Museum of Art in collaboration with Fairmount Park Art Association, Philadelphia, US
1947
Alexander Calder/Fernand Léger, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1942
First Papers of Surrealism, Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, Whitelaw Reid Mansion, New York, US
1936
Cubism and Abstract Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Selected Awards
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1977
Presidential Medal of Freedom
The Goslar Kaiserring Award for Modern Art
1975
Honorary Fellow, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague
United Nations Peace Medal
1974
Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur
Citoyen d’Honneur, City of Saché
Official Mayoral Decree of “Alexander Calder Day in Chicago” for 25 October; Honorary Citizen of Chicago
Le Grand Prix National des Arts
1971
Gold Medal for Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters
1970
University of California, Honorary Doctorate
University of Glasgow, Honorary Degree, Doctor of Laws
1969
Stevens Institute of Technology, Honorary Degree, Doctor of Engineering
Key to the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan
1966
Harvard University, Honorary Degree, Doctor of Arts
1964
Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters
1963
President’s Medal, The Art Directors Club of New York
1962
Art in America Annual Award for an Outstanding Contribution to American Art
Creative Arts Awards, Sculpture Medal, Brandeis University
1968
Officier de la Légion d’honneur
1961
Fine Arts Gold Medal for Master of Sculpture, The American Institute of Architects
1960
Elected to National Institute of Arts and Letters
Gold Medal of Honor in Sculpture, Architectural League of New York
1952
Grand Prize for Sculpture, XXVI Biennale di Venezia
Selected Public and Private Collections
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Art Institute of Chicago
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Selected Monographs
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Sweeney, James Johnson. Alexander Calder. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1951.
Calder, Alexander, and Jean Davidson, ed. Calder: An Autobiography with Pictures. New York: Pantheon Books, 1966.
Arnason, H. Harvard, and Pedro E. Guerrero. Calder. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1966.
Calder, Alexander, James Johnson Sweeney, and Daniel Lelong. Calder, l'artiste et l'oeuvre. Archives Maeght, no. 1. Paris: Maeght Editeur, 1971.
Arnason, H. Harvard, and Ugo Mulas. Calder. New York: Viking Press, 1971.
Bruzeau, Maurice. Calder à Saché. Paris: Éditions Cercle d'Art, 1975.
Hayes, Margaret Calder. Three Alexander Calders, A Family Memoir. Middlebury, Vt.: Paul S. Eriksson, 1977.
Pierre, Arnauld. Calder: La sculpture en mouvement. Paris: Découvertes Gallimard/Paris-Musées, 1996.
Carandente, Giovanni. Teodelapio: Alexander Calder. Milan: Edizioni Charta, 1996.
Rower, Alexander S. C. Calder Sculpture. New York: Universe, 1998.
Guerrero, Pedro E. Calder at Home: The Joyous Environment of Alexander Calder. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1998.
Stern, H. Peter, David R. Collens, and Alexander S. C. Rower. Calder: Storm King Art Center. Mountainville, N.Y.: Storm King Art Center, 2003.
Calder Jewelry. Edited by Alexander S. C. Rower and Holton Rower. New York: Calder Foundation, 2007.
Mulas, Ugo, Alexander Calder, and Giulio C. Argan. Ugo Mulas/Alexander Calder. Milan: Officina Libraria, 2008.
Pierre, Arnauld. Calder: Mouvement et Réalité. Paris: Éditions Hazan, 2009.
Calder by Matter. Edited by Alexander S. C. Rower. Paris: Cahiers d'Art, 2013.
“Calder in France.” Cahiers d’Art, no. 1 (2015). Edited by Alexander S. C. Rower.
Perl, Jed. Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898–1940. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
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2021-07-06 The Atlanta Journal Constitution
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2021-04-00 The Brooklyn Rail
2021-03-18 The New York Times
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