|
| |
| | Alexander Stirling Calder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Calder was the son of sculptor Alexander Milne Calder and the father of sculptor Alexander Calder. | | | Calder first worked as a sculptor assisting his father in producing the extensive sculpture program on the Philadelphia City Hall and in 1886 is reported to have modeled the arm of one of the figures. | | | Throughout out his career Calder was frequently a teacher, variously teaching sculpture or anatomy at the Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts, the School of Industrial Art, in Phladelphia, the National Academy of Design in NYC and the Students Art League, also in NYC. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stirling_Calder
(556 words)
|
|
| |
| | Alexander Calder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | His mother, Nanette Lederer Calder was a painter. | | | Upon graduating, Calder moved to Paris to continue his studies in art. | | | Whilst in Paris, Calder met and became friends with a number of avant-garde artists including Joan Miró, Jean Arp and Marcel Duchamp. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Calder
(1281 words)
|
|
| |
| | Alexander Calder |
| | Alexander Calder was the third generation sculptor in his family. | | | "Alexander Calder: 1898-1976" was organized by Marla Prather, the gallery's curator of Twentieth Century art, in collaboration with Calder's grandson, Alexander S.C. Rower, director of The Alexander and Louisa Calder Foundation and editor of the Calder catalogue raisonne. | | | Calder's father, A. Stirling Calder (1870-1945), was well known for graceful fountain and garden figures and commemorative statues, which ranged from Beaux Arts to Modernist in style. |
|
http://www.antiquesandthearts.com/archive/calder.htm
(2517 words)
|
|
| |
| | MSN Encarta - Alexander Calder |
| | Alexander Calder (1898-1976), American sculptor of great vitality and versatility, best known for his creation of mobile sculpture, and generally regarded as one of the 20th century's most innovative and witty artists. | | | Calder, the son and grandson of distinguished American sculptors, was born July 22, 1898, in Philadelphia. | | | Although Calder's stone, wood, and bronze sculptures; his drawings; and his later paintings (almost exclusively gouaches) are important, his reputation rests primarily upon his mobiles and stabiles. |
|
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761568042
(392 words)
|
|
| |
| | Museum of Contemporary Art - Education Programs |
| | Calder was born in 1898 into a family of artists. | | | Calder loved to give his artworks actual, physical motion, and he insisted that such works were not sculptures, but stabiles or mobiles (hanging from the ceiling). | | | Calder always spoke of his art as "work," emphasizing the fine craftsmanship that he employed. |
|
http://www.mcachicago.org/MCA/Education/Teachers/Book/Calder.html
(742 words)
|
|
| |
| | ALEXANDER CALDER |
| | Calder exhibited his works with Arp, Hélion, Pevsner, Miro and Seligmann and bought a farm in 1933 in Roxbury, Connecticut, where most of his works were made. | | | During the 1930’s Calder became known both in Paris and in America for his wire sculptures and portraits, his abstract constructions and his drawings but people mostly saw him as a performer and not really as an artist. | | | His grandfather, Alexander Milne Calder and his father, Alexander Stirling Calder were sculptors and his mother was a painter. |
|
http://www.artcult.com/calder.htm
(826 words)
|
|
| |
| | Alexander Calder: EnchantedLearning.com |
| | Calder's mother was a painter; his father and grandfather were sculptors. | | | Calder was born into a family of artists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, and he began creating pieces at a very early age. | | | After having his first one-man show in New York in 1926, Calder traveled to Paris, France, which was then the art capital of the world. |
|
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/artists/calder
(295 words)
|
|
| |
| | American Masters . Alexander Calder PBS |
| | So, in his early thirties Alexander Calder had not only found a project he would continue for the rest of his life, he had created a unique form of art, the mobile. | | | It was around this time that he became interested in the work of the Surrealist painter Joan Miró; and the modernist painter Piet Mondrian. | | | Throughout his young life, Calder was more interested in mechanics and engineering than art. |
|
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/calder_a.html
(873 words)
|
|
| |
| | Alexander Calder: Introduction |
| | Alexander Calder: 1898 - 1976 -- an exhibition of approximately 250 works -- is on view at SFMOMA from September 4 to December 1, 1998. | | | Calder in his studio at 14 rue de la Colonie. | | | The exhibition, honoring the centenary of Calder's birth, spans the artist's career and presents a range of works including wire sculptures, mobiles, stabiles, paintings and jewelry. |
|
http://www.sfmoma.org/espace/calder/calder_intro.html
(362 words)
|
|
| |
| | Alexander "Sandy" Calder and Braniff Airways - www.braniffpages.com |
| | Calder was born in Philadelphia, Penn in 1898, but didn't make the "art scene" until 1926 when he exhibited his work in New York. | | | Alexander Calder, like any artist, was very picky about his work. | | | Calder's art work is in most major cities all over the world. |
|
http://www.braniffpages.com/calder/calder.html
(1995 words)
|
|
| |
| | The Engineer Behind Calder's Art |
| | Contact with members of Abstraction-Creation, a Paris-based artists' group that Calder joined in 1931, and his friendship with artists such as the abstract painter Joan Mir-, the sculptor Jean Arp, and Marcel Duchamp undoubtedly provided the catalyst for his experimentation with an abstract idiom. | | | In Calder's early years as an artist, it seems he was systematic in his approach to "composing motions." Later, having perfected his technical methods, he became ever more inventive with his moving sculpture. | | | Calder often acknowledged that his first impulse to work in the abstract resulted from a visit to Piet Mondrian's studio in the fall of 1930. |
|
http://www.memagazine.org/backissues/december98/features/calder/calder.html
(3081 words)
|
|
| |
| | Sculptor.Org - Alexander Calder (1898-1976) |
| | Alexander Calder, America's first abstract artist of international renown, is forever associated with his invention of the mobile. | | | Alexander Calder (1898-1976) Born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania (now part of Philadelphia) in 1898, Alexander Calder came from a family of famous artists. | | | He is famous for inventing mobiles, suspended sculptures based on balance and movement, and for his abstract sculptures and paintings of animated form. |
|
http://www.sculptor.org/sculptors/ByName/AlexanderCalder.htm
(393 words)
|
|
| |
| | Biography - Alexander Calder |
| | Alexander Calder worked in almost every artistic element including painting (primarily gouache work) and drawings. | | | In addition to having a flair for new approaches to art, Calder had a flair for art itself. | | | "Le Cirque Calder," a menagerie of circus figures accompanied by Victrola music and the artist as enigmatic ringmaster soon won the hearts of Jean Arp, Marcel Duchamp and other members the French Avant-garde, sending Calder's artistic métier into orbit. |
|
http://www.antiquetalk.com/column291.htm
(601 words)
|
|
| |
| | Alexander Calder Online |
| | Alexander Calder at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Alexander Calder at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. Letter from Calder to Ben Shahn. | | | Alexander Calder at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 21 works by Alexander Calder | | | Original works by Alexander Calder available for purchase at art galleries worldwide |
|
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/calder_alexander.html
(761 words)
|
|
| |
| | Alexander Calder BMD |
| | Alexander Calder son to John Calder, portioner, and Margaret Martin, his spouse, was born on the 11th May and baptised 3rd June 1826. | | | Alexander Calder, his wife Jane and son Charles arrived in South Australia on the ship "Osceola" on 6 April 1851. | | | In addition, the shipping records for his voyage to Australia state that he was 32 years in 1850, making him born in 1818. |
|
http://members.optusnet.com.au/pcalder/calder/acbmd.htm
(570 words)
|
|
| |
| | Calder, Alexander on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The American sculptor Alexander CALDER in the vast grounds of his domaine and garden at Sachee in France with some of his Mobiles. | | | 'Alexander Calder: The Art of Invention' The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas October 6, 2001 - February 3, 2002. | | | Philadelphia; son of a prominent sculptor, Alexander Stirling Calder. |
|
http://encyclopedia.infonautics.com/html/C/Calder-A1.asp
(827 words)
|
|
| |
| | Today in History: July 22 |
| | Although he was the child of an accomplished painter and sculptor, Calder began his career as an engineer. | | | The artist made his first motor-driven sculptures, which were later dubbed "mobiles," in the winter of 1931-1932. | | | Calder subsequently ventured into commercial illustration, covering prize fights and the circus for the National Police Gazette. |
|
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul22.html
(568 words)
|
|
| |
| | Alexander Calder |
| | Alexander Calder San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. | | | Alexander Calder Ro Gallery--prints and biography (there are many art prints resources on the WWW) | | | Mobile, a type of moving sculptural artwork developed by Alexander Calder |
|
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/calder.htm
(890 words)
|
|
| |
| | Amazon.com: Alexander Calder (American Masters): DVD: Roger M. Sherman |
| | Such was the long and colorful career of Alexander "Sandy" Calder, inventor of the mobile as an art form and creator of the ubiquitous giant abstract sculptures that grace many of the world's cities, including the aforementioned one in Michigan. | | | In between shots of the lyrical moving mobiles and the majestic multistory animal-like sculptures there is footage of a playful Calder performing with his pieces and talking about work, as well as interviews with art experts and friends such as playwright Arthur Miller. | | | Alexander Calder and His Magical Mobiles by Jean Lipman |
|
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001DCR02?v=glance
(676 words)
|
|
| |
| | Alexander Calder artist and art...the-artists.org |
| | A retrospective of innovative modern sculptor Alexander Calder (1898-1976) including his own writings, documentary photographs and interviews with art historians and friends. | | | The early work of any artist is often startling, and Alexander Calder's is particularly so. | | | We think of Calder's sculpture as the epitome of crisp, Modernist forms--sometimes moving gently, as the mobiles and stabiles do. |
|
http://the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=8A01F1D5-BBCF-11D4-A93500D0B7069B40
(282 words)
|
|
| |
| | Alexander Calder (1897-1976) |
| | Every self-respecting art museum with any pretension to covering 20th century art has Calder pieces in their collections. | | | Alexander Calder and His Magic Mobiles (1981), Jean Lipman | | | The work of this incredibly inventive sculptor has long held both critical and popular acclaim. |
|
http://www.culturevulture.net/ArtandArch/Calder.htm
(155 words)
|
|
| |
| | In-Depth |
| | By the mid-1930s, his work was more biomorphic, reflecting the organic Surrealism created by his friends Jean Arp and Joan Miró. | | | Reflecting his interest in continual change, Calder added a fourth dimension to sculpture: time. | | | After supporting himself as an engineer and draftsman while studying at the Art Student's League in New York (1923—26), he journeyed to Paris, where he met avant-garde artists and first created the wire sculptures described by critics as "drawings in space." |
|
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/indepth_artist.asp?ID=15
(192 words)
|
|
| |
| | Alexander Calder - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter |
| | Alexander Calder is one of many artists available through Herndon Fine Art. | | | If you are interested in buying or selling fine art by Alexander Calder, we are your source. | | | This program features a look a prolific sculptor Alexander Calder. |
|
http://www.smarter.com/movies-4/product/alexander_calder-149027
(221 words)
|
|
| |
| | Alexander Calder |
| | Alexander married Jean England on 2 Jun 1827 in Benholm, Kincardine, Scotland. | | | CALDER, marriage, spouse Jean ENGLAND, 16 June, 1827, Garvock, Kincardine, Scotland. | | | Alexander CALDER, marriage, spouse Jean ENGLAND, 2 June 1827, Benholm, Kincardine, Scotland |
|
http://www.legacyfamilytree.ca/Fricker/57.htm
(246 words)
|
|
| |
| | Calder Alexander art |
| | Also find Alexander Calder art at our US partner AllPosters.com. | | | With advanced search you can find specific art the convenient way. |
|
http://www.postershop.com/Calder-Alexander-k.html&Partnerid=2922
(128 words)
|
|
| |
| | The Berkshire Museum |
| | The world knows Alexander Calder as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, but in 1927, he was best known as the son of the famous sculptor, Alexander Stirling Calder, a well-known public sculptor who was commissioned to sculpt the woodwork and the fountain surround in the Museum's Ellen Crane Memorial Sculpture Gallery. | | | This project is supported in part by a grant from the | | | In the 1930's the Berkshire Museum gave the young Calder his first public commission, a pair of mobiles designed for the Museum's new theater. |
|
http://www.berkshiremuseum.org/galleries/calder.html
(314 words)
|
|
| |
| | Amazon.co.uk: Alexander Calder: Books |
| | Celebrating the centenary of the birth of one of the most influential 20th-century sculptors, Alexander Calder, this illustrated text explores both his life and works, including lesser known pieces, examined and analyzed in detail. | | | Subjects > Art, Architecture & Photography > Artists, A-Z > C > Calder, Alexander | | | Subjects > Art, Architecture & Photography > Sculpture > General |
|
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/3822876429
(242 words)
|
|
| |
| | Amazon.ca: Alexander Calder: Books |
| | The book provided an excellent basis for talking about Calder's work of course, but it also provided insights into how a young artist develops his or her talents through the years. | | | Noah loved the charming cartoons depicting young Alexander's life and thoroughly enjoyed the photographs of the artist's mobiles and stabiles. | | | A book about Alexander Calder and his work for children, April 1, 1999 |
|
http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0516264001
(275 words)
|
|
| |
| | Storm King Art Center - Alexander Calder |
| | Alexander Calder, famous for his invention of the mobile, created an important body of large-scale free-standing sculptures that did not move - these are known as "stabiles." Each work in this group characteristically blends his love of colorful and playful curvilinear forms derived from nature with the scale of small buildings or shelters. | | | Calder was often frustrated by the limits of interior spaces and longed to see his work displayed outdoors "where the sky could be my ceiling." | | | This monumental, architecturally scaled stabile (fifty-six feet high) is among the last of Calder's career; it merges two important aspects of his development, the architectonic and the rounded, abstract biomorphic shapes vaguely reminiscent of natural forms. |
|
http://www.stormking.org/AlexanderCalder.html
(114 words)
|
|
| |
| | ALEXANDER CALDER |
| | Alexander Calder is best known for his kinetic sculptures or mobiles. | | | Sculptor, painter, illustrator, printmaker and designer, son of Alexander Stirling Calder. | | | The illustrations are brush and ink studies of animals in motion, with an accompanying text by the artist. |
|
http://www.djtfineart.com/?Alexander.Calder
(215 words)
|
|
| |
| | Alexander Calder's Flying Colors |
| | Calder supervised the painting of the final design at Braniff headquarters in Dallas although Braniff staff painted most of the aircraft. | | | The project was named “Flying Colors” and was designed as a 157-foot flying work of art, created and publicized to focus attention on Braniff’s South American destinations. | | | The selection committee included the directors of the National Gallery in Washington D.C., the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, the Whitney Museum in New York and the Detroit Institute of Art. |
|
http://www.braniffinternational.org/image/flyingcolors.htm
(670 words)
|
|
| |
| | Alexander Calder Biography - KinderArt |
| | Alexander Calder, called Sandy by all who knew him, was born in 1898 in Lawton Pennsylvania, now a part of Philadelphia. | | | He and his sister Peggy, who was two years older, were very close and used to play with all the games, toys and gadgets that Alexander made, as young as the age of 5. |
|
http://www.kinderart.com/artists/calder.htm
(272 words)
|
|
| |
| | CALDER FOUNDATION |
| | If a new window has not appeared automatically or by clicking above, please download a new browser. | | | Calder Foundation recommends Netscape 6 and Internet Explorer 5 or greater for using this Web Site. |
|
http://www.calder.org
(33 words)
|
|
|
Topic: Alexander Calder