1-7 December: Calder travels to Chicago to prepare for his exhibition of jewelry at the Arts Club. (CF, exhibition file; NL, Calder to Shaw, 13 November; Calder 1966, 185)

3-27 December: Arts Club of Chicago exhibits "Jewelry by Alexander Calder." (CF, exhibition file; NL, Calder to Shaw, 13 November; Calder 1966, 185)

4 December: Both the old icehouse studio and part of the Roxbury farmhouse are destroyed by an electrical fire. At the time, Louisa and the two girls are staying with the Serts in New York. Louisa tells Calder about the fire when he joins them on 7 December. (Calder 1966, 186; NL, Calder to Shaw, 14 December)

Agnes Rindge Claflin writes and narrates Alexander Calder: Sculpture and Constructions, a film based on the retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Cinematography is by Herbert Matter. (CF, project file)

Calder gives Black Lily to the Museum of Western Art in Moscow. (Calder 1966, 185)

3 February: Calder attends Mondrian's memorial service at the Universal Chapel at Lexington Avenue and Fifty-second Street, New York. (PM, 85)

27 March-9 April: Calder's Black Lily is loaned by the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C., to "Calder: Paintings, Mobiles, Stabiles and Jewelry," held at the local gallery France Forever. Calder performs Cirque Calder twice during the exhibition. (CF, exhibition file; Calder 1966, 184-185; AAA, Calder to Warner, 3 April)

Before 3 April: Calder makes the acquaintance of Keith Warner, owner of a leather manufacturing company and already a patron of several artists, including Piet Mondrian. He also becomes a devoted supporter of Calder. Until his death in 1959, Warner commissions dozens of works by Calder, including at least ten works of jewelry for his wife, Edna. Among these are some the first substantial jewelry pieces Calder fashions from gold. (CF, Warner correspondence)

Before May: In New York, Calder meets Brazilian architect Henrique Mindlin. (Calder 1966, 198)

Summer: The Calders live in the Tanguy-Sage household while the burned home is repaired. Calder does not rebuild the icehouse studio, which had burned to its foundations, but he and Louisa decide to take permanent residence at their home in Roxbury. (Calder 1966, 187; ASCR, conversation with Mary Calder Rower, 16 November 1997)