Archive

Riley, Maude Kemper. “Art Exhibitions.” Cue, vol. 12, no. 41 (9 October 1943).

Coates, Robert M. “The Art Galleries: Alexander Calder and Some Others.” New Yorker (9 October 1943).

“Calder’s Circus.” Newsweek, vol. 22, no. 15 (11 October 1943).

“Unusual Exhibit By Alexander Calder.” The Villager, 11 October 1943.

Bindol, Ben. “Art Events.” Aufbau, 15 October 1943.

“At the Museum of Modern Art.” Daily Worker, 16 October 1943.

Tiers, Mary Lowber. “Down Mobile Way.” Cue, vol. 12, no. 42 (16 October 1943).

Rogers, W. G. “Sculptor Works with Metals.” San Pedro News-Pilot, 18 October 1943.

Dreifuss, Jerome. “His Queer Metal Shapes Baffle Most Art Patrons.” Huntingdon News, 21 October 1943.

Greenberg, Clement. “Alexander Calder: Sculpture, Constructions, Jewelry, Toys, and Drawings.” The Nation, no. 157 (23 October 1943).

Fordell, Hanson, and Francis T. Howe. “Squirrel Cage Art.” Cue (23 October 1943).

McBride, Henry. “The Age of Metal.” New York Sun, 29 October 1943.

“A Connecticut Constructivist Sets a Challenge.” Interiors, vol. 103, no. 4 (November 1943).

Frost, Rosamund. “Calder Grown Up: A Museum-Size Show.” Art News, vol. 42, no. 12 (1–14 November 1943).

“American sculptor of this age.” Design, vol. 45 (November 1943).

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art. Exhibition catalogue. 1943.

Brine, Paul F. “Dead or Alive?” Tomorrow (December 1943).

Woodbury, Clarence. “Where Art Meets.” Cue (5 December 1943).

“Modern Design.” New York Times Magazine (12 December 1943).

McBride, Henry. “Seurat and Calder: Two Artists Much Loved by Their Biographers.” New York Sun, 31 December 1943.

Sweeney, James Johnson. “El Humor de Alexander Calder, Le Imprime Gracia y Fantasia a su Arte.” Norte, vol. 4, no. 3 (January 1944).

“Alexander Calder.” Architectural Forum, vol. 80, no. 1 (January 1944).

Alexander 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.

Sweeney, James Johnson, ed. Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes. New York: Curt Valentin, 1944.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Modern Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. 1944.

View, vol. 4, no. 1 (March 1944).

Sweeney, James Johnson. “The Position of Alexander Calder.” Magazine of Art, vol. 37, no. 5 (May 1944).

The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago. Drawings by Contemporary Artists. Exhibition catalogue. 1944.

The 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.

“Nursery Rhymes” (excerpts from Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes). Harper’s Bazaar (July 1944).

“Talent’s Daughters.” Harper’s Bazaar (July 1944).

San Francisco Museum of Art. Abstract and Surrealist Art in the United States. Exhibition catalogue. 1944.

View, vol. 4, no. 3 (October 1944).

“Speaking of Pictures.” Life, vol. 17, no. 14 (2 October 1944).

Dyn, vol. 1, no. 6 (Fall 1944).

Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York. Recent Work by Alexander Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1944.

View, series VI, no. 4 (December 1944).

Pedrosa, Mario. “Alexandre Calder, Escultor de Cata-Ventos.” Correio da Manhã, 10 December 1944.

“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).

Pedrosa, Mario. “Alexandre Calder, O Escultor de Cata-Ventos, Part II.” Correio da Manhã, 17 December 1944.

Motherwell, Robert. “Calder’s ‘Three Young Rats.’” The New Republic (25 December 1944).

Buffet, Gabrielle. “Sandy Calder, forgeron lunaire.” Cahiers d’Art, nos. 20–21 (1945–46).

“Bulletin.” Munson Williams Proctor Institute (c. 1945).

Art News (September 1945).

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors, and Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. 1945.

Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York. Recent Work by American Sculptors. Exhibition catalogue. 1945.

Young, Margaret. “Man the Accident, the Anomaly.” New York Times, 11 February 1945.

Kraus, Felix H. “The Easel: Modern Art. 1945: Alexander Calder.” Tricolor, vol. 111, no. 13 (April 1945).

Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Painting and Sculpture by Outstanding Berkshire Artists. Exhibition catalogue. 1945.

Bear, Donald. “Contemporary Sculpture Shows Widely Divergent Viewpoints in Art Museum.” Santa Barbara News-Press, 5 August 1945.

Mindlin, Henrique. “Alexander Calder.” Enba, no. 3 (September 1945).

“Calder in Gouaches.” Art Digest, vol. 19 (15 September 1945).

The New York Sun, 15 September 1945.

New York World-Telegram, 15 September 1945.

Devree, Howard. “By Ones and By Groups.” New York Times, 16 September 1945.

“Calder Abstracts.” New York Herald Tribune, 16 September 1945.

“Back to the Wall.” Time, vol. 46 (17 September 1945).

“New Art Show Opened.” Waterbury Republican, 23 September 1945.

Coates, Robert M. New Yorker (29 September 1945).

Stroup, Jon. “Time Out…For Art In New York.” Town & Country (October 1945).

Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York. Alexander Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1945.

“Calder.” Art News, vol. 44, no. 15 (15 November 1945).

“Two Moderns.” New York Herald Tribune, 18 November 1945.

Mounin, Georges. “L’objet de Calder.” Cahiers d’Art, nos. 20–21 (1945–46).

Breuning, Margaret. “Calder in Two Media.” Art Digest (1 December 1945).

“Alexander Calder.” Arts & Architecture, vol. 63, no. 1 (January 1946).

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1946.

Bouxin, Andre. “Forme et Architecture.” Techniques et Architecture, nos. 9–10 (1946).

Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan. Origins of Modern Sculpture. Exhibition catalogue. 1946.

City Art Museum of St. Louis, Missouri. Origins of Modern Sculpture. Exhibition catalogue. 1946.

“Alexander Calder.” Current Biography, vol. 7, no. 4 (April 1946).

Warren, Robert Penn. “A Poem of Pure Imagination: Reconsiderations VI.” The Kenyon Review, vol. VIII (Summer 1946).

“Drawings in Black and White.” Partisan Review (Summer 1946).

Art Institute of Chicago. 57th Annual American Exhibition, Water Colors and Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. 1946.

Richter, Hans. “Le Cinéma Américain d’Avant-garde.” Style en France, no. 4 (July–September 1946).

“Paris Still Art World Center, Says Calder.” Waterbury Republican, 11 August 1946.

Cincinnati Modern Art Society, Ohio. 4 Modern Sculptors: Brancusi, Calder, Lipchitz, Moore. Exhibition catalogue. 1946.

Sartre, Jean-Paul. “Mobiles.” Berkeley, no. 2, Fall/Winter 1946.

Galerie Louis Carré, Paris. Alexander Calder: Mobiles, Stabiles, Constellations. Exhibition catalogue. 1946.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Les Mobiles de Calder

Chevalier, Denys. (Publication unknown), 1 November 1946.

Duche, Jean. “Jean-Paul Sartre: Patron des ‘Mobiles’ d’Alexandre Calder.” Cavalcade (c. November 1946).

Estienne, Charles. “Un fabricant d’espace: Alexandre Calder.” Combat, 30 October 1946.

Guichard, Jean. “La sculpture remue.” Temps Présent, no. 114, 1 November 1946.

Limbour, Georges. “Les Mobiles d’Alexandre Calder.” (Publication unknown), c. November 1946.

McCausland, Elizabeth. “American Painting and Sculpture in the Metropolitan and Whitney Collections.” Magazine of Art (November 1946).

Diehl, Gaston. “Les plaisirs de la matière.” Libératon-Soir, 8 November 1946.

Barotte, René. “Les sculptures de l’apprenti-sorcier Calder palpitent au souffle d’un wentilateur: ce sont des ‘mobiles’ explique Jean-Paul Sartre.” Quatre et Trois, 14 November 1946.

Einstein, William. “Art News in Paris.” New York Herald Tribune, 18 November 1946.

“Modern Handmade Jewelry, from an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.” Arts & Architecture, vol. 63, no. 11 (December 1946).

“The Bellman’s Song.” Child Life, vol. 26, no. 1 (January 1947).

“Exposition d’Art Moderne au Palais des Papes à Avignon.” Cahiers d’Art (1947).

Payne, Elizabeth H. “A Space Modulator by Moholy-Nagy and Mobile by Calder.” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. 26, no. 1 (1947).

Six Artists (1947). Footage compiled by Hans Richter. Black-and-white, silent; 0:48 min. This segment shows Calder performing Cirque Calder.

Breit, Harvey. “Coleridge’s Strange Hierarchy of the Damned.” New York Times, 5 January 1947.

Mattatuck Historical Society, Waterbury, Connecticut. Alexander Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1947.

Hill, Lyall H. “Calder Show Fresh and Exciting.” Waterbury Republican, 16 March 1947.

Cunard, Nancy. “Arts Parallel: A Note on Calder, Léger and Vilato.” Jazz Forum, no. 4 (April 1947).

Schneider-Lengyel, I. “Alexander Calder, der Ingenieur-Bildhauer.” Prisma (Munich), vol. 1, no. 6 (14–15 April 1947).

Bouxin, A. “Portraits.” Style en France, vol. 2, no. 5 (15 April 1947).

Giedion, Siegfried. “The Hammock and Alexander Calder.” Interiors, vol. 106, no. 10 (May 1947).