2 December-20 January: Calder exhibits four wood sculptures, including Cow, in "Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans," Museum of Modern Art, New York. (CF, exhibition file)

17-22 December: Calder returns to New York on the Bremen (Calder 1966, 114; AAA, postcard, Wiser to Calder)

1-16 January: Calder prints postcards to announce performances of Cirque Calder at 903 Seventh Avenue, New York. Five performances are given; each audience includes about thirty spectators. (AAA, circus announcement; The World, 18 January)

17 January: Alexander Calder and Louisa James are married in Concord, Massachusetts. Calder performs Cirque Calder the evening before. The reverend who married us apologized for having missed the circus the night before. So I said: 'But you are here for the circus today.' (Calder 1966, 115)

22 January: The Calders sail for Europe on the American Farmer. They return to Calder's studio at 7 Villa Brune. (Calder 1966, 116; CF, Calder to George Thomson)

February: The Abstraction-Creation group is founded; members include Jean Arp, Robert Delaunay, William "Binks" Einstein, Jean Helion, Piet Mondrian, and Anton Pevsner. (Calder, 1966, 114)

27 April-9 May: Calder's abstract work is presented for the first time in the exhibition "Alexander Calder: Volumes-Vecteurs-Densites; Dessins-Portraits," at Galerie Percier, Paris. Leger writes in the introduction to the catalogue: Eric Satie illustrated by Calder. Why not?'It's serious without seeming to be.'Neoplastician from the start, he believed in the absolute of two colored rectangles....Looking at these new works--transparent, objective, exact---I think of Satie, Mondrian, Marcel Duchamp, Brancusi, Arp--these unchallenged masters of unexpressed and silent beauty. Calder is in the same family.He is 100-percent American.Satie and Duchamp are 100-percent French.Where do they meet? (CF, exhibition file)

27 April: Pablo Picasso arrives early for the opening at the Galerie Percier and introduces himself to Calder. (CF, Calder 1955-1956, 95)

2 May: The Calders move into a three-story townhouse at 14 rue de la Colonie. (Calder 1966, 121; Hayes 1977, 252-253; AAA, taxi receipt)

May: Louisa buys a dog, a small Briard mix. She and Calder name him "Feathers" because of his wispy hair. (Calder 1966, 121-122; CF, Calder to parents, c. 16 June)