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Calder in his New York City storefront studio, winter 1936. Photograph by Herbert Matter

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Calder, Statement on Wire Sculpture, 1929

Pascin, Foreword from Sculptures bois et fil de fer de Alexander Calder, 1929

Léger, Eric Satie Illustrated by Calder. Why not?, 1931

Calder, How can art be realized?, 1932

Calder, That which moves—On mobile sculptures, 1932

Calder, Statement from Modern Painting and Sculpture, 1933

Sweeney, Essay from Mobiles by Alexander Calder, 1934

Sweeney, Alexander Calder's Mobiles, 1935

Calder, Mobiles, 1937

Sweeney, Alexander Calder: Movement as a Plastic Element, 1939

Masson, The Studio of Alexander Calder, n.d.

Calder, A Propos of Measuring a Mobile, 1943

Sartre, Calder's Mobiles, 1946

Calder, What Abstract Art Means to Me, 1951

Sweeney, Alexander Calder, 1951

Calder, Here is a Little History of My Circus, 1952

Kuh, Interview with Alexander Calder, 1962

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