23 February: Graham premieres Horizons at the Guild Theatre in New York City. The program note reads: The "Mobiles," designed by Alexander Calder, are a new conscious use of space. They are employed in Horizons as visual preludes to the dances in this suite. The dances do not interpret the "Mobiles," nor do the "Mobiles" interpret the dances. They are employed to enlarge the sense of horizon. (CF, project file; anon., "Graham Dance Group")

2 March-19 April: "Cubism and Abstract Art" is presented by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Calder is represented by A Universe and Untitled. (CF, exhibition file)

2 April: Calder performs Cirque Calder in New York at Pierre Matisse Gallery. (AAA, Calder to Bunce, 26 March)

24-25 April: Socrate is performed at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. (CF, project file)

22-29 May: Galerie Charles Ratton, Paris, presents "Exposition surréaliste d'objets." Calder contributes a mobile. (CF, exhibition file)

11 June-4 July: Roland Penrose's "International Exhibition of Surrealism" at his New Burlington Galleries, London, includes two sculptures by Calder, among them Requin et Baleine (Shark and Whale). Andre Breton writes the preface to the catalogue. (CF, exhibition file)

July: The Calders vacation at Eastham on Cape Cod. (AAA, Calder to Bunce, 13 July)

Winter: Calder is commissioned by architect Paul Nelson to design a trophy for CBS's Annual Amateur Radio Award. The work is William S. Paley Trophy for Amateur Radio. (CF, project file; Calder 1966, 155)

5 December: Daisy Barr presented Mrs. Kenneth Clark wife of the National Gallery [director] for extensive jewellery [sic] fittings, so I did nothing but chronologically, after that. (CF, Calder to Soby, 5 December)

7 December-17 January 1937: Calder's Praying Mantis and Object with Yellow Background are included in the exhibition "Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism," organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. (CF, exhibition file)