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ID: 500007824 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500007824			Record Type: Person

Calder, Alexander (American sculptor, painter, and designer, 1898-1976)

Note: Calder graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1919 with a degree in mechanical engineering. After taking classes at the Arts Students League, he became a freelance artist and illustrator, and published a book titled Animal Sketching. In the 1920s, Calder began traveling to Paris, where he was exposed to modernist tendencies in art. In 1930, after visiting Piet Mondrian's studio, where he was impressed by the studio environment, he began to create Comment on works: abstract, moving constructions, coined “mobiles” by Marcel Duchamp in 1931, for which he is most known. From the 1930s onward, Calder divided his time between trips abroad and his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, and as his commissions grew more frequent, his mobiles became increasingly gigantic. Examples are Flamingo, the stabile at Federal Center Plaza in Chicago, and L’Araignée rouge, at the Rond Point de La Défense Métro station in Paris.. Comment on works: abstract

Names:
	Calder, Alexander (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
	Calder, Alexander (Dutch-P,NA)
	Alexander Calder (V,display)
	Calder, Sandy (V)
	קלדר, אלכסנדר (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)
	Calder (LU,U)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)
	French

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	sculptor
	painter
	illustrator
	printmaker
	designer
	tapestry designer
	watercolorist
	lithographer
	draftsman

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Philadelphia (Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, United States) (inhabited place) Died: New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

child of ....	Calder, Alexander Stirling
..............	(American sculptor, 1870-1945) [500023328]

fellow student of ....	Benton, Thomas Hart Art Students League
..............................	(American painter, illustrator, and lithographer, 1889-1975) [500005998]

fellow student of ....	Sloan, John French Art Students League
..............................	(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871-1951) [500014645]

grandchild of ....	Calder, Alexander Milne
........................	(American sculptor, 1846-1923) [500032270]

influenced by ....	Brown, Earle
........................	(American composer, 1926-2002) [500101100]

student of ....	Du Bois, Guy Pène
..................	(American painter, 1884-1958) [500120494]

student of ....	Locke, Charles Wheeler
..................	(American painter, 1899-1983) [500024549]

student of ....	Luks, George Benjamin
..................	(American painter and printmaker, 1867-1933) [500007311]

student of ....	Robinson, Boardman
..................	(American painter, illustrator, and teacher, 1876-1952) [500010640]

student of ....	Sloan, John French
..................	(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871-1951) [500014645]

teacher of ....	Torres, Caciporé
..................	(Brazilian painter, born 1935) [500356599]

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Persons, Artists

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Calder, Alexander (I)

Biographies:

(American sculptor, painter, and designer, 1898-1976) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American artist) ..... [AVERY]
(artist) ..... [Belvedere]
(American artist, 1898-1976) ..... [Belvedere]
(American watercolorist, 1898-1976) ..... [RKD]
(American sculptor, 1898-1976) ..... [IMJ]
(American artist, 1898-1976) ..... [MoMA]
(American artist, 1898-1976) ..... [PROV]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(artist, 1898-1976) ..... [GRL]
(American sculptor, 1898-1976) ..... [BHA]
(American artist, 1898-1976) ..... [AVERY]
(American artist, 1898-1976) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(American sculptor, 1898-1976) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(American artist, 1898-1976) ..... [WCI]
(American artist, 1898-) ..... [WCP]
(American painter, 1898-1976) ..... [PROV]
(American sculptor, 1898-1976) ..... [GRLPA]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

קלדר, אלכסנדר ........	[IMJ]
..........................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database

Alexander Calder ........	[GRISC, MoMA, PROV, VP]
..................................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..................................	Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1999)
..................................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..................................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..................................	Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

Calder ........	[PROV]
...............	Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

Calder, Alexander ........	[AVERY Preferred, Belvedere Preferred, BHA Preferred, CL-Courtauld Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, PROV Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred, WCI Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
....................................	Archiv des Belvedere database: Künstlerdokumentation (n.d.) 18930
....................................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
....................................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
....................................	GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 890164
....................................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79112975
....................................	Oxford Concise Dictionary of Art and Artists (1996) 84
....................................	Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
....................................	RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
....................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 14770
....................................	Witt Library, Authority files

Calder, Sandy ........	[AVERY, GRL]
............................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
............................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79112975


Note:
English	..........	[AVERY, CL-Courtauld, PROV, VP, WL-Courtauld]
	..........	Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 26 November 2003
	..........	LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
	..........	Personal Communication e-mail from Alexander Calder Foundation; 20 December 2016
	..........	Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

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