biography
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Calder, Alexander
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known as Sandy Calder
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pronunciation:
[kawlder]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1898–1976)
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| biography:
| Sculptor and painter, born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, USA. The son of Alexander Stirling Calder, he studied at Stevens Institute of Technology (1915–19), the Art Students League, New York City (1923–6), and in Paris, where he began his famous circus menagerie, Le Cirque Calder (1926–61), and the first of his wire sculptures, ‘Josephine Baker’ (1926). By 1927 he was based in New York City and Roxbury, CT (1933), and from 1953 also maintained a home in France. He was an abstract painter but became most famous for his moving sculptures, named ‘mobiles’ by Marcel Duchamp, as seen in ‘Big Red’ (1959). His stationary sculptures, named ‘stabiles’ by Jean Arp, are often large public works, as in ‘El Sol Rojo’ (1968). |
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