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Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland. Calder, Léger, Bodmer, Leuppi. Exhibition catalogue. 1947.

“Modern Art for Cincinnati.” Art Digest (5 May 1947).

Palais des Papes, Avignon. Exposition de peintures et sculptures contemporaines. Exhibition catalogue. 1947. Texts by Fernand Léger and Christian Zervos.

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Alexander Calder / Fernand Léger. Exhibition catalogue. 1947.

Galerie Maeght, Paris. Le Surréalisme en 1947. Exhibition catalogue. 1947. Edited by André Breton and Marcel Duchamp.

“Enriching U. S. Museums.” Art News, vol. 46, no. 6 (August 1947).

“Make it from a Pattern–and Make it in Suede.” Harper’s Bazaar (August 1947).

Payne, Elizabeth H. “Mobile by Calder.” Detroit Institute Bulletin, vol. 26 (September 1947).

M. L. S., “Squares.” The Ambassador, no. 9 (September 1947).

New Yorker (6 September 1947).

“Calder.” Arts & Architecture, vol. 64, no. 10 (October 1947).

Veronesi, Giulia. “Braque, Picasso, Calder.” Emporium, vol. 106, nos. 635–636 (November–December 1947).

Sartre, Jean-Paul. “Existentialist on Mobilist.” Art News (December 1947).

Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York. Alexander Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1947. Text by Jean-Paul Sartre.

New York Sun, 12 December 1947.

Devree, Howard. “Calder and Two ‘Firsts.’” New York Times, 14 December 1947.

Gibbs, Jo. “It May Not Be Sculpture, But It’s Vital.” Art Digest, vol. 22, no. 6 (15 December 1947).

Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947). Sponsored by Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century, New York. Films International of America, New York. 16mm, color, sound (English); 85 min. Produced and directed by Hans Richter, assisted by Miriam Reaburn; cinematography by Arnold Eagle; music by Louis Applebaum.

Allison, Margaret. “‘Mobile’ Sculptor Tells What Makes work ‘Tick’.” Minneapolis Tribune, 20 October 1947.

Soby, James Thrall. “Three Humorists: Klee, Miró, Calder.” Contemporary Painters. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1948.

La Fontaine, Jean de. Selected Fables. Translated by Eunice Clark. New York: Quadrangle Press, 1948.

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford. Painting Toward Architecture. Exhibition catalogue. 1948.

Janis, Harriet. “Mobiles.” Arts & Architecture, vol. 65, no. 2 (February 1948).

“Balance the Silhouette.” Harper’s Bazaar (March 1948).

“Barroom Art in the Modern Manner.” Architectural Forum, vol. 88 (April 1948).

Todd, Ruthven. “An Illuminated Poem: Alexander Calder.” Here and Now (Toronto), vol. 1, no. 2 (May 1948).

XXIV Biennale di Venezia. Exhibition catalogue. 1948.

Calder, Alexander. “The Ides of Art: 14 Sculptors Write.” The Tiger’s Eye, vol. 1, no. 4 (15 June 1948).

Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Ministerio da Educaçao e Saude. Alexander Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1948. Texts by Henrique E. Mindlin, André Breton, and Nancy Cunard; reprinted texts by Jean-Paul Sartre and James Johnson Sweeney.

Da Silveiro, Paulo. “Ao correr da pena: a musica oscilatoria das imagens.” (Publication unknown), c. September 1948.

“Calder Apresenta-se ao Público do Brasil.” O Globo, c. September 1948.

Pedrosa, Mario. “A maquina, Calder, Léger e outros.” Politica e Letras, 16 September 1948.

Lessa, Elsie. “Calder, o artista criancão.” O Globo, 20 September 1948.

Bardi, P. M. “Calder e os ‘mobiles’ em proxima exposicao.” Diário de São Paulo, 26 September 1948.

“Arrival in Cincinnati.” Fortune (October 1948).

Pedrosa, Mario. “Introdução a Alexander Calder.” Diário de São Paulo, 31 October 1948.

“Alexander Calder’s New Illustrations for La Fontaine’s The Hare and the Ban on Horns, translated by Eunice Clark.” Art News (September 1948).

The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. A Comparison of Primitive and Modern: 40,000 Years of Modern Art. Exhibition catalogue. 1948. Preface by Herbert Read; texts by W.G. Acher and Robert Melville.

Masson, André. “L’atelier de Calder.” Cahiers d’Art, vol. 24, no. 2 (1949).

Soby, James Thrall. Calder, Matisse, Matta, Miró: Mural Scrolls. New York: Katzenbach and Warren, 1949.

“Spectacular ‘Steel Fish’ Now at Home at Virginia Museum.” (Publication unknown), c. 1949.

“Reviews and Previews.” Art News (January 1949).

“The Artistic Scene.” Harper’s Bazaar (February 1949).

Soby, James Thrall. “The Younger American Artists.” Harper’s Bazaar (February 1949).

Palazzo Strozzi, Florence. La Collezione Guggenheim. Exhibition catalogue. 1949.

Pringle, Ann. “Artists Murals For Your Walls.” New York Herald Tribune, 22 February 1949.

Rich, Daniel Catton. Magazine of Art (March 1949).

Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil. Do Figurativismo ao Abstracionismo. Exhibition catalogue. 1949. Introduction by Sergio Milliet; text by Léon Dégand.

Soby, James Thrall. “Calder, Matisse, Miró, Matta.” Arts & Architecture, vol. 66, no. 4 (April 1949).

Lynes, Richard. “Everyday Tastes from High-Brow to Low-Brow are Classified on Chart.” Life Magazine, vol. 26 (4 April 1949).

“70 Sculptors 70: The World’s Biggest Sculpture Show Assembles Them and Their Statues in an Art Museum in Philadelphia.” Life Magazine, vol. 26 (20 June 1949).

“Stabiles.” Architectural Review (London), vol. 106, no. 632 (August 1949).

Pilotis, no. 3 (September 1949).

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

“The Steel Fish Swims South.” The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Members’ Bulletin, vol. 10, no. 2 (October 1949).

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Modern Art in Your Life. Exhibition catalogue. 1949.

Hess, Thomas B. “Of arts and the man.” Art News, vol. 48 (6 October 1949).

Driscoll, Edgar J., Jr. “Exhibition of ‘Mobiles’ Mystifies or Fascinates.” Boston Sunday Globe, 30 October 1949.

Adlow, Dorothy. “Alexander Calder’s Sculpture.” Christian Science Monitor, 31 October 1949.

“Calders Carry on in Philadelphia.” Architectural Forum, vol. 91, no. 5 (November 1949).

“Calder Mobile Reels in Virginia.” Art News (November 1949).

Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York. Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1949. Text by André Masson.

“Alexander Calder.” Art News, vol. 48, no. 8 (December 1949).

Drexler, Arthur. “Calder.” Interiors, vol. 109, no. 5 (December 1949).

Preston, Stuart. “New West, Old East.” New York Times, 4 December 1949.

Chanin, A. L. “Calder Creates a Gala Wonderland of Movement.” The Sunday Compass (4 December 1949).

Krasne, Belle. “Caldermobiles, 1950.” Art Digest, vol. 24, no. 6 (15 December 1949).

Works of Calder (1950). Produced by New World Film Productions for the Museum of Modern Art, New York. 16mm, color, sound (English); 20 min. Directed and cinematography by Herbert Matter; produced and narrated by Burgess Meredith; music by John Cage.

“‘Isms’ of Sculpture: Traditions and Affinities.” The Observer (c. 1950s).

Wilde, Oscar. “Art and Nature.” Trans/formation: Arts Communication Environment, vol. 1, no. 1 (1950).

Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan. Modern Sculpture: A Picture Book of Modern Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. 1950.

“Lo studio di Hans Erni.” Domus, no. 245 (April 1950).

Clapp, Talcott. “Calder.” Art d’Aujourd’hui, nos. 10–11 (May–June 1950).

Degand, Léon. “Notes sur Calder.” Art d’Aujourd’hui, nos. 10–11 (May–June 1950).

Goudy, Alice M. “Four Collectors in Philadelphia.” Art News (Summer 1950).

“Artists’ Angel.” Look (20 June 1950).

Galerie Maeght, Paris. Calder: Mobiles & Stabiles. Exhibition catalogue. 1950. Derrière le Miroir, no. 31 (July 1950). Texts by James Johnson Sweeney, Henri Laugier, Henri Hoppenot, and Fernand Léger.

Lucas, Hans (pseudonym of Jean-Luc Godard). “Works of Calder et L’Histoire d’Agnes.” Gazette du Cinema (September 1950).

“Glass is Beautiful, Glass is Useful.” Flair, vol. 1, no. 9 (October 1950).

Sandberg, G. “Reflexions diparates sur l’organisation d’un museé d’art d’aujourd’hui.” Art d’Aujourd’hui, vol. 2, no. 1 (October 1950).

Haber, Abraham. “Pintura y Percepción.” Perceptismo (October 1950).

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Alexander Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1950.

Adlow, Dorothy. Christian Science Monitor, 10 October 1950.

“Reviews and Previews.” Art News, vol. XLIX, no. 7, part 1 (November 1950).

“Half Century’s Best.” (Publication unknown), 12 November 1950.

Galerie Blanche, Stockholm. Alexander Calder: Mobiles and Stabiles. Exhibition catalogue. 1950. Introduction by Eric Grate.

“College Receives Unusual Gift.” Kenyon Alumni Bulletin (Winter 1950–51).

Buchholz Gallery, New York. The Heritage of Auguste Rodin, An Exhibition Assembled in Honor of the Diamond Jubilee of The Philadelphia Museum of Art. Exhibition catalogue. 1950.

Dame, Lawrence. “Regarding Art.” Sunday Herald, 17 December 1950.

Adlow, Dorothy. “Calder Mobiles Shown in Cambridge.” Christian Science Monitor, 27 December 1950.

Dreier, Katherine S., and Marcel Duchamp. Collection of the Société Anonyme (New Haven: Yale, 1950).

Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder

Calder, Alexander. “What Abstract Art Means to Me: Statements by Six American Artists.” The Museum of Modern Art Bulletin, vol. 18, no. 3 (Spring 1951).

Sweeney, James Johnson. Alexander Calder. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1951.

The Lefevre Gallery, London. Mobiles and Stabiles by Alexander Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1951. Foreword by James Johnson Sweeney.

Schiller, Ronald. “Calder.” Portfolio, 1951.

Driscoll, Edgar J. “Calder’s Show of Mobiles Has Animated Sculpture.” Sunday Globe, January 1951.

“Gala pa Galleri.” Vecko-Journalen, no. 1 (4 January 1951).

“Connecticut Yankee.” Time, vol. 57, no. 2 (8 January 1951).

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Surréalisme + Abstraction / Surrealisme + Abstractie. Exhibition catalogue. 1951.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America. Exhibition catalogue. 1951. Text by Andrew Carnduff Ritchie.