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Calder packs thirty-seven miniature mobiles and stabiles into six small cartons and mails them to Carré in Paris. Due to U.S. Postal Service regulations, he gives the name of six different senders for each package: himself, Duchamp, Masson, Sweeney, Tanguy, and Renée
(Ritou) Nitzschke.
Calder proposes to Carré to have Sartre write an essay for his show. I met Jean-Paul Sartre when he was here, and he came + visited my workshop. Perhaps he would consent to write a little preface if you thought that desirable.
CF, Calder to Carré, 19 JulyIntrigued by the limitations on parcel size imposed by the U.S. Postal Service, Calder begins creating larger works for his show at Galerie Louis Carré that are collapsible and intended to be reassembled upon arrival in Paris.
CF, Calder to Carré, 14 August; Calder 1966, 188“Gay, Fantastic Gouaches by Calder” is on view at Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York.
CF, exhibition fileBuchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York, presents “Alexander Calder.”
CF, exhibition file
Bibliography 210
1941
“The Art Galleries: Windup.” New Yorker (14 June 1941).
MagazineHellman, Geoffrey T. “Profiles: Everything is Mobile.” New Yorker, vol. 17 (4 October 1941).
MagazineRoss, Kenneth. “Abstract ‘Art In Motion.’” (Publication unknown), 4 October 1941.
NewspaperJolas, Eugene, ed. Vertical: A Yearbook for Romantic-Mystic Ascensions. New York: Gotham Bookmart, 1941.
MagazineFrankenstein, Alfred. “President Roosevelt Supplies a Market.” San Francisco Chronicle, 16 November 1941.
Newspaper1942
Calder, Alexander. “How Can Art Be Realized?” In Art of This Century . . . 1910 to 1942, edited by Peggy Guggenheim. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Art of This Century, 1942.
Group Exhibition CatalogueThe Arts Club of Chicago. Nine American Artists. Exhibition catalogue. 1942.
Group Exhibition CatalogueHelena Rubinstein New Art Center, New York. Masters of Abstract Art. Exhibition catalogue. 1942.
Group Exhibition CatalogueCincinnati Art Museum, Ohio. Paintings by Paul Klee and Mobiles and Stabiles by Alexander Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1942.
Group Exhibition CatalogueCoan, Ellen Stone. “The Mobiles of Alexander Calder.” Vassar Journal of Undergraduate Studies, vol. 15 (May 1942).
MagazineBurrows, Carlyle. “Calder’s Mobiles.” New York Herald Tribune, May 1942.
NewspaperAufbau, May 1942.
NewspaperMcBride, Henry. New York Sun, May 1942.
NewspaperHughes, Joyce. “Mobiles and Stabiles.” Gotham Life (c. May–June 1942).
MagazineJewell, Edward Alden. “Among the Local Shows.” New York Times, 23 May 1942.
Newspaper“Tinkling Metal.” Art Digest, vol. 16 (1 June 1942).
MagazineJ. W. L. “Calder.” Art News (June–July 1942).
MagazineVVV Portfolio. Portfolio of eleven works in various media by Calder, Breton, Carrington, Chagall, Ernst, Hare, Masson, Matta, Motherwell, Seligmann, and Tanguy. New York: VVV, 1942.
PortfolioVVV, no. 1 (June 1942).
MagazineDyn, vol. 1, no. 3 (Fall 1942).
MagazineCoordinating Council of French Relief Societies, Whitelaw Reid Mansion, New York. First Papers of Surrealism. Exhibition catalogue. 1942.
Group Exhibition CatalogueWhitney Museum of American Art, New York. Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Exhibition catalogue. 1942.
Group Exhibition CatalogueThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Artists for Victory: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Art. Exhibition catalogue. 1942.
Group Exhibition CatalogueThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Artists for Victory: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Art; A Picture Book of the Prize Winners. Exhibition catalogue. 1942.
Group Exhibition Catalogue“Living Art.” A radio interview with exhibition prizewinners Alexander Calder, Philip Evergood, and Jose de Creeft at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artists for Victory, aired by WABC Radio on 8 December 1942.
Unpublished Document or ManuscriptMasson, André. “L’Atelier d’Alexander Calder.” Handwritten poem, 1942. Calder Foundation, New York.
Unpublished Document or Manuscript1943
Calder, Alexander. “À Propos of Measuring a Mobile.” Manuscript, 1943. Agnes Rindge Claflin papers concerning Alexander Calder, 1936-circa 1970s. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Unpublished Document or ManuscriptMorris, George L. K. “Relations of Painting and Sculpture.” Partisan Review (January–February 1943).
Magazine“Modern Decor.” (Publication unknown), 1943.
Magazine“Children’s page.” View, vol. 3, no. 1 (April 1943).
MagazineMcBride, Henry. New York Sun, 21 May 1943.
Newspaper“Surrealist Artists Show Similar Trend.” New York World-Telegram, 22 May 1943.
Newspaper“Tanguy and Calder.” New York Herald Tribune, 23 May 1943.
NewspaperDevree, Howard. “From a Reviewer’s Notebook.” New York Times, 23 May 1943.
NewspaperAddison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts. 17 Mobiles by Alexander Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1943.
Alexander Calder, Statement
Solo Exhibition CatalogueCoates, Robert M. “Calder.” New Yorker (29 May 1943).
MagazineAdlow, Dorothy. “Painting And Mobiles On Display.” Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 1943.
NewspaperThe Museum of Modern Art, New York. Alexander Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1943. Text by James Johnson Sweeney. Revised, enlarged, and issued as a monograph in 1951.
Solo Exhibition CatalogueJewell, Edward Alden. “Calder Sculpture on Display Today.” New York Times, 29 September 1943.
NewspaperR., M. “Modern Opens Retrospective Show of Calder’s Light-Hearted Art.” Art Digest, vol. 18, no. 1 (1 October 1943).
Magazine“Popular Art and Esoteric: Exhibitions of the Week Offer Wide Variety.” New York Sun, 1 October 1943.
NewspaperGenauer, Emily. “Calder’s Mobiles and Other Shows of the Week.” New York World-Telegram, 2 October 1943.
NewspaperBurrows, Carlyle. “The Calder Exhibition.” New York Herald Tribune, 3 October 1943.
NewspaperJewell, Edward Alden. “Calder in Retrospect.” New York Times, 3 October 1943.
NewspaperMcCausland, Elizabeth. “Alexander Calder at The Museum of Modern Art.” Springfield Sunday Union and Republican, 3 October 1943.
NewspaperCoates, Robert M. “The Art Galleries: Alexander Calder and Some Others.” New Yorker (9 October 1943).
Magazine“Calder’s Circus.” Newsweek, vol. 22, no. 15 (11 October 1943).
Magazine“Unusual Exhibit By Alexander Calder.” The Villager, 11 October 1943.
NewspaperBindol, Ben. “Art Events.” Aufbau, 15 October 1943.
Newspaper“At the Museum of Modern Art.” Daily Worker, 16 October 1943.
NewspaperRogers, W. G. “Sculptor Works with Metals.” San Pedro News-Pilot, 18 October 1943.
NewspaperDreifuss, Jerome. “His Queer Metal Shapes Baffle Most Art Patrons.” Huntingdon News, 21 October 1943.
NewspaperGreenberg, Clement. “Alexander Calder: Sculpture, Constructions, Jewelry, Toys, and Drawings.” The Nation, no. 157 (23 October 1943).
MagazineFordell, Hanson, and Francis T. Howe. “Squirrel Cage Art.” Cue (23 October 1943).
MagazineMcBride, Henry. “The Age of Metal.” New York Sun, 29 October 1943.
Newspaper“A Connecticut Constructivist Sets a Challenge.” Interiors, vol. 103, no. 4 (November 1943).
MagazineFrost, Rosamund. “Calder Grown Up: A Museum-Size Show.” Art News, vol. 42, no. 12 (1–14 November 1943).
Magazine“American sculptor of this age.” Design, vol. 45 (November 1943).
MagazineWhitney Museum of American Art, New York. Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art. Exhibition catalogue. 1943.
Group Exhibition CatalogueBrine, Paul F. “Dead or Alive?” Tomorrow (December 1943).
MagazineWoodbury, Clarence. “Where Art Meets.” Cue (5 December 1943).
Magazine“Modern Design.” New York Times Magazine (12 December 1943).
MagazineMcBride, Henry. “Seurat and Calder: Two Artists Much Loved by Their Biographers.” New York Sun, 31 December 1943.
Newspaper1944
Sweeney, James Johnson. “El Humor de Alexander Calder, Le Imprime Gracia y Fantasia a su Arte.” Norte, vol. 4, no. 3 (January 1944).
Magazine“Alexander Calder.” Architectural Forum, vol. 80, no. 1 (January 1944).
MagazineAlexander Calder: Sculpture and Constructions (1944). Produced by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. 16mm, color, sound (English); 10 min. Written and narrated by Agnes Rindge Claflin; cinematography by Herbert Matter; filmed and recorded by Hartley Productions.
FilmSweeney, James Johnson, ed. Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes. New York: Curt Valentin, 1944.
Illustrated BookThe Museum of Modern Art, New York. Modern Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. 1944.
Group Exhibition CatalogueView, vol. 4, no. 1 (March 1944).
MagazineSweeney, James Johnson. “The Position of Alexander Calder.” Magazine of Art, vol. 37, no. 5 (May 1944).
MagazineThe Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago. Drawings by Contemporary Artists. Exhibition catalogue. 1944.
Group Exhibition CatalogueThe Museum of Modern Art, New York. Art in Progress: The Fifteenth Anniversary of the Museum of Modern Art. Exhibition catalogue. 1944. Texts by James Thrall Soby, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Nancy Newhall, George Amberg, Iris Barry, Elizabeth Mock, Serge Chermayeff, Rene D’Harnoncourt, Monroe Wheeler, Elodie Courter, and Victor D’Amico.
Group Exhibition Catalogue“Nursery Rhymes” (excerpts from Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes). Harper’s Bazaar (July 1944).
Magazine“Talent’s Daughters.” Harper’s Bazaar (July 1944).
MagazineSan Francisco Museum of Art. Abstract and Surrealist Art in the United States. Exhibition catalogue. 1944.
Group Exhibition CatalogueView, vol. 4, no. 3 (October 1944).
Magazine“Speaking of Pictures.” Life, vol. 17, no. 14 (2 October 1944).
MagazineDyn, vol. 1, no. 6 (Fall 1944).
MagazineBuchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York. Recent Work by Alexander Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1944.
Solo Exhibition CatalogueView, series VI, no. 4 (December 1944).
MagazinePedrosa, Mario. “Alexandre Calder, Escultor de Cata-Ventos.” Correio da Manhã, 10 December 1944.
Newspaper“The Year in Art: A Review of 1944: Including Art News’ Selection of the Ten Outstanding One Man Shows.” Art News (15–31 December 1944).
MagazinePedrosa, Mario. “Alexandre Calder, O Escultor de Cata-Ventos, Part II.” Correio da Manhã, 17 December 1944.
NewspaperMotherwell, Robert. “Calder’s ‘Three Young Rats.’” The New Republic (25 December 1944).
Magazine1945
Buffet, Gabrielle. “Sandy Calder, forgeron lunaire.” Cahiers d’Art, nos. 20–21 (1945–46).
Magazine“Bulletin.” Munson Williams Proctor Institute (c. 1945).
MagazineArt News (September 1945).
MagazineWhitney Museum of American Art, New York. Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors, and Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. 1945.
Group Exhibition CatalogueBuchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York. Recent Work by American Sculptors. Exhibition catalogue. 1945.
Group Exhibition CatalogueYoung, Margaret. “Man the Accident, the Anomaly.” New York Times, 11 February 1945.
NewspaperKraus, Felix H. “The Easel: Modern Art. 1945: Alexander Calder.” Tricolor, vol. 111, no. 13 (April 1945).
MagazineBerkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Painting and Sculpture by Outstanding Berkshire Artists. Exhibition catalogue. 1945.
Group Exhibition CatalogueBear, Donald. “Contemporary Sculpture Shows Widely Divergent Viewpoints in Art Museum.” Santa Barbara News-Press, 5 August 1945.
NewspaperMindlin, Henrique. “Alexander Calder.” Enba, no. 3 (September 1945).
Magazine“Calder in Gouaches.” Art Digest, vol. 19 (15 September 1945).
MagazineThe New York Sun, 15 September 1945.
NewspaperNew York World-Telegram, 15 September 1945.
NewspaperDevree, Howard. “By Ones and By Groups.” New York Times, 16 September 1945.
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