Archive

“Mobiles en mouvement.” Cahiers d’Art, vol. 14, nos. 1–4 (1939).

São Paulo, Brazil. III Salão de Maio. Exhibition catalogue. 1939.

New Yorker (c. 1939)

Bill, Max. “The Mastery of Space.” Sculpture (1939).

Sweeney, James Johnson. “Alexander Calder: Movement as a Plastic Element.” Plus, no. 2 (February 1939).

“Modern Sculpture: Is It Art, Or What?” New York Times Magazine (5 February 1939).

Division of Decorative Arts, Department of Fine Arts, San Francisco. Golden Gate International Exposition, Decorative Arts Official Catalogue. Exhibition catalogue. 1939.

“Pictures on Exhibit.” (Publication unknown), May 1939.

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York. Calder Mobiles–Stabiles. Exhibition catalogue. 1939.

“Fantastic and Ingenious Constructions.” Art News, vol. 37 (13 May 1939).

“Mobile Sculptures in Gallery Shows.” New York World-Telegram, 13 May 1939.

“Art to Move.” Cue (13 May 1939).

“Attractions in the Galleries.” New York Sun, 13 May 1939.

“Mobiles and Stabiles.” New York Herald Tribune, 14 May 1939.

Jewell, Edward Alden. “Museum of Modern Art Looks Ahead.” New York Times, 14 May 1939.

Breuning, Margaret. Journal and American, 14 May 1939.

Bird, P. “Calder and Nature.” Art Digest, vol. 13 (15 May 1939).

“Motion Man.” Time, vol. 33, no. 2 (29 May 1939).

Breuning, Margaret. “Calder Mobiles and Stabiles.” American Magazine of Art, vol. 32, no. 6 (June 1939).

“Abstract Sculpture in Plexiglas.” Architectural Forum, vol. 70, no. 6 (June 1939).

“Results of Plexiglas Competition.” Architectural Record (June 1939).

“Plexiglas Sculpture Prizes are Awarded.” Pencil Points (June 1939).

“Os estrangeiros no III Salão de Maio.” Diário da Noite, 8 July 1939.

Calder, Alexander. “A Water Ballet.” Theatre Arts Monthly, vol. 23, no. 8 (August 1939).

New York University, New York. Museum of Living Art; A. E. Gallatin Collection. Exhibition catalogue. 1940.

“Versus.” Architectural Forum, vol. 72 (April 1940).

Lane, James W. “Annual Calder Mobile Parade.” Art News, vol. 38 (18 May 1940).

McBride, Henry. New York Sun, 18 May 1940.

Klein, Jerome. “Fanciful Game.” New York Post, 18 May 1940.

“Mobiles and Stabiles.” New York Herald Tribune, 19 May 1940.

Devree, Howard. “A Reviewer’s Notebook.” New York Times, 19 May 1940.

Division of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Department of Fine Arts, San Francisco. Golden Gate International Exposition, Contemporary Art Official Catalogue. Exhibition catalogue. 1940.

“Circus in Wire.” Newsweek, vol. 15, no. 22 (27 May 1940).

“Calder’s ‘Mobiles.’” Art Digest, vol. 14, no. 17 (1 June 1940).

Mumford, Lewis. “The Dead Past and the Dead Present.” Architectural Forum, vol. 72 (June 1940).

“Art Forms in Architecture . . . New Techniques Affect Both.” Architectural Record (October 1940).

“Novel Handmade Jewelry on Exhibit.” Women’s Wear Daily, 4 December 1940.

McBride, Henry. New York Sun, 7 December 1940.

Lane, James W. “Alexander Calder as Jewelry Designer.” Art News, vol. 39 (14 December 1940).

McCausland, Elizabeth. “Some Shows of the Holiday Season.” Springfield Sunday Union and Republican, 15 December 1940.

New York Herald Tribune, 15 December 1940.

Buchholz Gallery, New York. Exhibition of American Sculpture To-Day. Exhibition catalogue. 1940.

“Muralist.” New Yorker, vol. 16, no. 47 (4 January 1941).

Coates, Robert M. “The Art Galleries: Modern French–And Some Americans.” New Yorker, vol. 16, no. 48 (11 January 1941).

The Arts and Crafts Club of New Orleans. Alexander Calder: Mobiles / Jewelry and Fernand Léger: Gouaches / Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. 1941.

Genauer, Emily. “The Matisse Gallery.” New York World-Telegram, 23 May 1941.

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York. Alexander Calder: Recent Works. Exhibition catalogue. 1941.

Upton, Melville. “Calder Shows New ‘Mobiles.’” New York Sun, 31 May 1941.

Genauer, Emily. “Calder at Matisse.” New York World-Telegram, 31 May 1941.

Burrows, Carlyle. “Calder’s Mobiles.” New York Herald Tribune, 1 June 1941.

Jewell, Edward Alden. “Artists Depict a War-Torn World.” New York Times, 1 June 1941.

Frankel, Robert. “Alexander Calder.” Art News, vol. 40 (1–30 June 1941).

Breuning, Margaret. Journal and American, 1 June 1941.

Camprubi, Ines. “Homenaje al Momento.” La Prensa, 4 June 1941.

Sacartoff, Elizabeth. “An Old Talent and Six New Ones Stack Up Well.” PM’s Weekly, 8 June 1941.

“The Art Galleries: Windup.” New Yorker (14 June 1941).

Hellman, Geoffrey T. “Profiles: Everything is Mobile.” New Yorker, vol. 17 (4 October 1941).

Ross, Kenneth. “Abstract ‘Art In Motion.’” (Publication unknown), 4 October 1941.

Jolas, Eugene, ed. Vertical: A Yearbook for Romantic-Mystic Ascensions. New York: Gotham Bookmart, 1941.

Frankenstein, Alfred. “President Roosevelt Supplies a Market.” San Francisco Chronicle, 16 November 1941.

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.

The Arts Club of Chicago. Nine American Artists. Exhibition catalogue. 1942.

Helena Rubinstein New Art Center, New York. Masters of Abstract Art. Exhibition catalogue. 1942.

Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio. Paintings by Paul Klee and Mobiles and Stabiles by Alexander Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1942.

Coan, Ellen Stone. “The Mobiles of Alexander Calder.” Vassar Journal of Undergraduate Studies, vol. 15 (May 1942).

Burrows, Carlyle. “Calder’s Mobiles.” New York Herald Tribune, May 1942.

Aufbau, May 1942.

McBride, Henry. New York Sun, May 1942.

Hughes, Joyce. “Mobiles and Stabiles.” Gotham Life (c. May–June 1942).

Jewell, Edward Alden. “Among the Local Shows.” New York Times, 23 May 1942.

“Tinkling Metal.” Art Digest, vol. 16 (1 June 1942).

J. W. L. “Calder.” Art News (June–July 1942).

VVV 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.

VVV, no. 1 (June 1942).

Dyn, vol. 1, no. 3 (Fall 1942).

Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, Whitelaw Reid Mansion, New York. First Papers of Surrealism. Exhibition catalogue. 1942.

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Exhibition catalogue. 1942.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Artists for Victory: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Art. Exhibition catalogue. 1942.

The 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.

“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.

Masson, André. “L’Atelier d’Alexander Calder.” Handwritten poem, 1942. Calder Foundation, New York.

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.

Morris, George L. K. “Relations of Painting and Sculpture.” Partisan Review (January–February 1943).

“Modern Decor.” (Publication unknown), 1943.

“Children’s page.” View, vol. 3, no. 1 (April 1943).

McBride, Henry. New York Sun, 21 May 1943.

“Surrealist Artists Show Similar Trend.” New York World-Telegram, 22 May 1943.

“Tanguy and Calder.” New York Herald Tribune, 23 May 1943.

Devree, Howard. “From a Reviewer’s Notebook.” New York Times, 23 May 1943.

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts. 17 Mobiles by Alexander Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1943.

Alexander Calder, Statement

Coates, Robert M. “Calder.” New Yorker (29 May 1943).

Adlow, Dorothy. “Painting And Mobiles On Display.” Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 1943.

The 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.

Jewell, Edward Alden. “Calder Sculpture on Display Today.” New York Times, 29 September 1943.

R., M. “Modern Opens Retrospective Show of Calder’s Light-Hearted Art.” Art Digest, vol. 18, no. 1 (1 October 1943).

“Popular Art and Esoteric: Exhibitions of the Week Offer Wide Variety.” New York Sun, 1 October 1943.

Genauer, Emily. “Calder’s Mobiles and Other Shows of the Week.” New York World-Telegram, 2 October 1943.

Burrows, Carlyle. “The Calder Exhibition.” New York Herald Tribune, 3 October 1943.

Jewell, Edward Alden. “Calder in Retrospect.” New York Times, 3 October 1943.

McCausland, Elizabeth. “Alexander Calder at The Museum of Modern Art.” Springfield Sunday Union and Republican, 3 October 1943.