24-25 April: Socrate is performed at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. (CF, project 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 [sic] for extensive jewellery [sic] fittings, so I did nothing but chronologically, after that. (CF, Calder to Soby, 5 December 1936)

15 December: Calder performs Cirque Calder in his apartment at 244 East Eighty-sixth Street. (AAA, Calder to Bunce, 9 December)