Calder Foundation

In 1931, Calder began to incorporate movement into his abstract objects.  The standing mobile seen here is one of the artist’s earliest kinetic sculptures. Read more: tinyurl.com/27fsmzpu

Herbert Matter was born on this day in 1907. The Swiss photographer took many of the most iconic pictures of Calder and his body of work. Read more: tinyurl.com/auhry6ay

In 1962, @tate held the retrospective Alexander Calder: Sculpture–Mobiles. Curated by James Johnson Sweeney, the exhibition presented ninety works by Calder including monumental sculptures, jewelry, mobiles, and wire sculptures. Read more: tinyurl.com/pek2ahh6

Jean Hélion was born on this day in 1904. Calder became close friends with the French painter during his early years in avant-garde Paris, where they often exhibited with the same groups. Read more: tinyurl.com/9sxxhjwm

An intermediate maquette of Calder’s monumental El Sol Rojo in Mexico City, the stabile seen here is on view at the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton. Read more: tinyurl.com/mpejvpyn

In April 1945, André Masson brought the French author and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre to visit Calder in Roxbury, Connecticut. One year later, Sartre wrote an essay for Calder’s exhibition at Galerie Louis Carré, Paris. Read more: tinyurl.com/k77p6par

The standing mobile The Minute Hand is currently on view at the San José Museum of Art (@sjmusart) in Calder: at home, among friends. Read more: tinyurl.com/4exhb8r6

In April 2017, Calder: Constellations was held at @PaceGallery, New York. Thirty-six of Calder’s beloved wooden sculptures, on loan from a variety of public and private collections, were presented together. Read more: tinyurl.com/3vbudp3c

We are pleased to share the Calder Foundation’s new visual identity. Calder’s art and ethos are at the center of everything we do at the Foundation—and now his signature will grace all our projects. Read more: tinyurl.com/yu44ses3

For his wire sculpture Goldfish Bowl, Calder ingeniously devised a crank-driven mechanism to activate the two fish. Read more: tinyurl.com/3jvnrp3x

Today, Calder’s home and studio in Saché host @ateliercalder, a residency program that invites international artists to live and work on the property for three months. Read more: tinyurl.com/yc3rx3hk

Calder and Yves Tanguy met in Paris in the late 1920s, but they became close friends a decade later while living in Connecticut. Read more: tinyurl.com/bdet2hys

When viewing a sculpture such as the monumental stabile Brontosaurus, it is important to not give undue importance to its title. The sculpture is neither a depiction nor an abstraction of a dinosaur. Read more: tinyurl.com/4ktymsrv

The primary axis of Calder’s hanging mobile Scarlet Digitals is sloped precipitously, creating a startling balancing act in which the lowest element nearly touches the floor. Read more: tinyurl.com/3j4rc346

Following Space: Thaddeus Mosley & Alexander Calder is currently on view at the Seattle Art Museum (@iheartSAM). In a video interview, Mosley describes his first experience encountering Calder’s work in Pittsburgh when he was a young man. Read more: tinyurl.com/33dcu64k

In honor of the first day of spring, here is Calder’s 10-inch-high brass wire Flower. Read more: tinyurl.com/3kwyw5ct

The pioneering French filmmaker and artist Agnès Varda met Calder in 1952, and the pair went on to become friends. Varda photographed Calder on many occasions during those years, capturing a range of indelible images. Read more: tinyurl.com/mr2223f2

Although Calder began working in gouache in the 1920s, it wasn’t until the 1940s that he delved into the unexpected medium. Read more: tinyurl.com/r4y44854

Calder redefined the nature of sculpture when he began working with wire in the mid-1920s. In massless portraits such as this one of artist John Graham, Calder used wire lines to convey spatial contour and composition. Read more: tinyurl.com/5a73rbbk

We are pleased to share that Donatien Grau’s essay “Calder Alone”—originally published in @kunsthal's Calder Now—has been added to our website’s online archive. Read more: tinyurl.com/kj6e2fe6