Archive

Balloon (1946). Written by Padraic Colum; mobile set by Calder.

Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan. Origins of Modern Sculpture. 22 January–3 March 1946.

City Art Museum of St. Louis. Origins of Modern Sculpture. 30 March–1 May 1946. Originated from Detroit Institute of Arts.

Clay Club Gallery, New York. Benefit: Exhibition and Sale of Sculpture to Help Raise Funds for the Sculpture Center. 15 April 1946.

Art Institute of Chicago. 57th Annual American Exhibition, Water Colors and Drawings. 6 June–18 August 1946.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Modern Jewelry Design. 18 September–17 November 1946.

Cincinnati Modern Art Society. 4 Modern Sculptors: Brancusi, Calder, Lipchitz, Moore. 1 October–15 November 1946.

Galerie Louis Carré, Paris. Alexander Calder: Mobiles, Stabiles, Constellations. 25 October–16 November 1946.

Art Center Gallery, University of Indiana, Bloomington. Modern Sculpture. 12 November–10 December 1946.

Boyd-Britton Associates, Chicago. 1947.

Portland Art Museum, Oregon. 7–29 January 1947.

John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis. 9 February–16 March 1947.

San Francisco Museum of Art. Alexander Calder. 17 February–16 March 1947. Originated from Portland Art Museum, Oregon.

Mattatuck Historical Society, Waterbury, Connecticut. Alexander Calder. 10–28 March 1947.

Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland. Calder, Léger, Bodmer, Leuppi. 4–26 May 1947.

The Stable, New Haven, Connecticut. Alexander Calder. 26 May 1947.

Palais des Papes, Avignon. Exposition de peintures et sculptures contemporaines. 27 June–30 September 1947.

Galerie Maeght, Paris. Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme. 7 July–30 September 1947.

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Alexander Calder / Fernand Léger. 19 July–24 August 1947.

Art Center Gallery, University of Indiana, Bloomington. Sculptors’ Drawings and Small Sculptures. 17 November–25 December 1947.

Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York. Alexander Calder. 9–27 December 1947.

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford. Painting Toward Architecture. 11 December 1947–3 January 1948.

Institute of Contemporary Arts, Washington, D.C. 1948.

Milwaukee Art Institute, Wisconsin. Painting Toward Architecture. 7 May–6 June 1948. Originated from Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford.

Galerie Denise René, Paris. Sculptures/Peintures. 21 May–23 June 1948.

Venice. XXIV Biennale di Venezia. 6 June–30 September 1948.

California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco. Painting Toward Architecture. 1 July–1 August 1948. Originated from Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford.

Ministério da Educação e Saúde, Rio de Janeiro. Alexander Calder. September 1948.

Museu de Arte, São Paulo, Brazil. Alexander Calder. October–November 1948. Originated from Ministério da Educação e Saúde, Rio de Janeiro.

Knoedler Galleries, New York. Painting Toward Architecture. 2–20 November 1948. Originated from Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford.

Galerie d’Art Moderne, Basel. Calder, Picasso, Steinwender. December 1948–January 1949.

Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York. Alexander Calder Recent Mobiles, 1948. 11 December 1948–3 January 1949.

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Painting Toward Architecture. 16 December 1948–15 January 1949. Originated from Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford.

The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. A Comparison of Primitive and Modern: 40,000 Years of Modern Art. 20 December 1948–29 January 1949.

Happy As Larry (1949). Written by Donagh MacDonagh; directed by Burgess Meredith; mobile sets by Calder.

Palazzo Strozzi, Florence. La Collezione Guggenheim. 19 February–10 March 1949.

Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil. Figurativismo ao Abstracionismo. 8–31 March 1949.

Philadelphia Museum of Art in collaboration with Fairmount Park Art Assocation. Third International Exhibition of Sculpture. 15 May–11 September 1949.

Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris. 22 July–28 August 1949.

Giardino del Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, Venice, Italy. Mostra di Scultura Contemporanea: Presentata da Peggy Guggenheim. September 1949.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Modern Art in Your Life. 5 October–4 December 1949.

Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston. Calder. 25 October–12 November 1949.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Calder and Sculpture Today. 28 October–11 December 1949.

Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York. Calder. 30 November–17 December 1949.

Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. Formes utiles, objets de notre temps. December 1949.

Institute of Contemporary Arts, Washington, D.C. 1950.

Judith (1950). Performed by Martha Graham and Louisville Orchestra. Columbia Auditorium.

The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. Painting Toward Architecture. 8 January–2 February 1950. Originated from Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford.

Galerie Denise René, Paris. Denise René présente quelques aspects de l’art d’aujourd’hui. 13 January–1 February 1950.

Galerie Denise René, Paris. Espaces Nouveaux. 1 April–1 May 1950.

Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Painting Toward Architecture. 23 May–14 June 1950. Originated from Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford.

Galerie Maeght, Paris. Calder: Mobiles & Stabiles. 30 June–27 July 1950.

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Alexander Calder. 6 October–15 November 1950. Originated from Galerie Maeght, Paris.

Galerie Blanche, Stockholm. Alexander Calder: Mobiles and Stabiles. December 1950. Originated from Galerie Maeght, Paris.

New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Calder. 5 December 1950–14 January 1951.

Buchholz Gallery, New York. The Heritage of Auguste Rodin, An Exhibition Assembled in Honor of the Diamond Jubilee of The Philadelphia Museum of Art. 6 December 1950–6 January 1951.

The Lefevre Gallery, London. Mobiles and Stabiles by Alexander Calder. January 1951. Originated from Galerie Maeght, Paris.

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Surréalisme + Abstraction / Surrealisme + Abstractie. 19 January–26 February 1951.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America. 23 January–25 March 1951.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The 75th Anniversary Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture by 75 Artists Associated with the Art Students League of New York. February–April 1951.

Institute of Contemporary Arts, Washington, D.C. Sculptures by Alexander Calder. 17 April–2 June 1951.

Neue Galerie, Vienna. Alexander Calder. 10 May–15 June 1951. Originated from Galerie Maeght, Paris.

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. Calder–Miró. 14 October–4 November 1951.

Museo de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil. I Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo. 20 October–December 1951.

Palais de Charlottenborg, Copenhagen. Klar Form. 8–26 December 1951.

Curt Valentin Gallery, New York. Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers. 15 January–10 February 1952.

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio. Calder Mobiles. 15 January–5 February 1952.

Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston. Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers. 10–29 March 1952.

Nucléa (1952). Written by Henri Pichette; directed by Jean Vilar; sets and costumes designed by Calder; music by Maurice Jarre.

Galerie Maeght, Paris. Alexander Calder: Mobiles. 6–10 May 1952.

Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany. Calder Mobile. 5–20 June 1952.

Venice. XXVI Biennale di Venezia. 14 June–19 October 1952.

Galerie Rudolf Hoffmann, Hamburg, Germany. Alexander Calder: Mobiles–Stabiles. 28 June–15 July 1952. Originated from Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany.

Moderne Galerie Otto Stangl, Munich. Alexander Calder / Joan Miró. 18 July–28 August 1952. Originated from Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany.

Overbeckgesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany. 30 August–14 September 1952. Originated from Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany.

Württembergischer Kunstverein und der Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany. Mobiles. 25 September–15 October 1952. Originated from Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany.

Art Center Gallery, University of Indiana, Bloomington. Modern Sculpture. 10 October–6 November 1952.

Philadelphia Museum of Art and Fairmount Park Art Association. Sculpture of the Twentieth Century. 11 October–7 December 1952.

Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne. Alexander Calder–Mobile. 16 October–29 November 1952. Originated from Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany.

Galerie la Hune, Paris. Permanence du Cirque. 18 November–9 December 1952.

Galerie Springer, Berlin. Alexander Calder: Mobile. 1 December 1952–6 January 1953. Originated from Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany.

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. In Memory of Katherine S. Dreier 1877–1952: Her Own Collection of Modern Art. 15 December 1952–1 February 1953.