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Historical Photos 124
![Vertical White Frame (1951)](https://calder.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Vertical-White-Frame-1951-363x450.jpg)
![Calder in Roxbury (1952)](https://calder.org/wp-content/uploads/historical-photos/calder-in-roxbury-1952/calder-in-roxbury-1952-363x450.jpg)
![Snow Flurry I (1952)](https://calder.org/wp-content/uploads/historical-photos/snow-flurry-i-1952/snow-flurry-i-1952-351x450.jpg)
![Crown of leaves (c. 1940), Roxbury studio (1952)](https://calder.org/wp-content/uploads/historical-photos/crown-of-leaves-c-1940-hanging-in-calders-roxbury-studio-1952/crown-of-leaves-c-1940-hanging-in-calders-roxbury-studio-1952-365x450.jpg)
![Calder and Louisa Calder with daughter Mary in the Roxbury house kitchen (1952)](https://calder.org/wp-content/uploads/historical-photos/calder-and-louisa-calder-with-daughter-mary-in-the-roxbury-house-kitchen-1952/calder-and-louisa-calder-with-daughter-mary-in-the-roxbury-house-kitchen-1952-450x358.jpg)
![Calder, Roxbury studio (1952)](https://calder.org/wp-content/uploads/historical-photos/calder-in-his-roxbury-studio-1952/calder-in-his-roxbury-studio-1952-372x450.jpg)
![Peggy Guggenheim with her Silver Bed Head (1943) (1952)](https://calder.org/wp-content/uploads/historical-photos/peggy-guggenheim-with-her-silver-bed-head-1943-1952/peggy-guggenheim-with-her-silver-bed-head-1943-1952-335x450.jpg)
![Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers (1952)](https://calder.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/gongs-and-towers-1952-450x309.jpg)
![Set for Nucléa (1952)](https://calder.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Nuclea-1952-450x417.jpg)
![Calder and Jeanne Moreau during Nucléa (1952)](https://calder.org/wp-content/uploads/historical-photos/Calder-and-Jeanne-Moreau-during-Nuclea-1952-450x442.jpg)
![Gérard Philipe, Calder, and Jean Vilar during Nucléa (1952)](https://calder.org/wp-content/uploads/historical-photos/Gerard-Philipe-Calder-and-Jean-Vilar-during-Nuclea-1952-422x450.jpg)
![Calder on set of Nucléa (1952)](https://calder.org/wp-content/uploads/historical-photos/Calder-on-set-of-Nuclea-1952-359x450.jpg)
![Calder in Agnès Varda’s courtyard (1952)](https://calder.org/wp-content/uploads/historical-photos/Calder-in-Agnes-Vardas-courtyard-1952-e1638564319649-430x450.jpg)
Chronology 110
Calder accepts the commission from Carlos Raúl Villanueva, whom he met through Sert in 1951, to design an acoustic ceiling for Aula Magna, the auditorium of the Universidad Central de Venezuela. He collaborates with the engineering firm Bolt, Beranek, and Newman,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
![Acoustic Ceiling (1954)](https://calder.org/wp-content/uploads/historical-photos/acoustic-ceiling-1954/acoustic-ceiling-1954-450x351.jpg)
Moderne Galerie Otto Stangl, Munich, presents “Alexander Calder / Joan Miró.” The exhibition originated from Calder’s solo show at Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal.
CF, exhibition file![Calder Mobile (1952)](https://calder.org/wp-content/uploads/historical-photos/calder-mobile-1952/calder-mobile-1952-447x450.jpg)
Calder performs Cirque Calder in Roxbury.
CF, Calder to Rockefeller; CF, Osborn to Calder, 8 SeptemberCalder arrives in Bonn on 10 September with an invitation from the German State Department to tour West Germany. After two days he travels to Munich, where he meets Bruno Werner, a journalist who reviewed his first Berlin exhibition in 1929. He continues on to Mannheim and
Darmstadt.
Calder stays in Berlin.
Calder 1966, 211–12Calder travels to Hamburg, where he meets the dealer Rudolf Hoffmann. He then goes on to Hanover, Bremen, and Cologne before returning to Bonn.
Calder 1966, 211–12Calder flies from Bonn to New York.
CF, passportGalerie la Hune, Paris, exhibits “Permanence du Cirque.” The exhibition commemorates the publication of a book by the same title, which includes an essay by Calder, “Voici une petite histoire de mon cirque.”
CF, exhibition fileCalder presents Cirque Calder in Washington, D.C.; Jean invites “what seemed half of Washington, D.C., to see it.”
Calder 1966, 213At the suggestion of John Cage, American composer Earle Brown travels to Roxbury to meet Calder. Pierre Boulez joins him.
CF, project file