Archive

Sylvester, David. “Mobiles and Stabiles by Alexander Calder.” Art News and Review, vol. 2, no. 26 (27 January 1951).

Yerxa, Fendall. “Photography: 16-mm Flight of Fancy: Movie Camera Looks at Calder Mobiles.” (Publication unknown), 28 January 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. Exhibition catalogue. 1951.

Middleton, Michael. “Toys for Highbrows.” Picture Post, vol. 50, no. 5 (3 February 1951).

Haggquist, Arne. “Stockholm.” Arts (2 March 1951).

Cunliffe, Mitzi. “Mobiles by Calder.” Building, vol. 26, no. 5 (May 1951).

Neue Galerie, Vienna. Alexander Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1951. Foreword by Fernand Léger.

“Art in the Abstract.” Americas (July 1951).

Alfons, Sven. “Exkurser Kring Calder.” Konstrevy, vol. 27, no. 1 (September–October 1951).

Grafly, Dorothy. “Alexander Calder: Creator of Moving Forms in Space.” American Artist, vol. 15, no. 8 (October 1951).

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. Calder–Miró. Exhibition catalogue. 1951. Text by Mary Gershinowitz.

“Trois chefs-d’oeuvre de Franz Hals ont enrichi le musee de Sao-Paulo.” Arts (19 October 1951).

Museo de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil. I Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo. Exhibition catalogue. 1951.

“La Biennale de Sao-Paulo.” Opera (14 & 20 November 1951).

Lassaigne, Jacques. “Affirmation de l’art americain; la sculpture. langage commun.” Arts (23 November 1951).

Degand, Léon. “Klar Form.” Art d’Aujourd’hui, vol. 3, no. 1 (December 1951).

Calder, Alexander. “Alexander Calder.” In Témoignages pour l’art abstrait 1952, edited by Julien Alvard and Roger Van Gindertael. Paris: Editions Art d’Aujourd’hui, 1952.

Calder, Alexander. “Voici une petite histoire de mon cirque.” In Permanence du Cirque. Exhibition Catalogue. Paris: Revue Neuf, 1952.

“Gongs and Towers.” Art News, vol. 50, no. 9 (January 1952).

Cassou, Jean. “Les Espaces.” XXe siècle. no. 2 (January 1952).

Mendel, Hortense, and Robert L. Leslie.Young Faces: An Illustration Album of Type Faces for Children’s Books (1952).

Konsthallen, Helsinki. Klar Form. Exhibition catalogue. 1952.

Curt Valentin Gallery, New York. Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers. Exhibition catalogue. 1952. Reprinted texts by James Johnson Sweeney and Fernand Léger.

Preston, Stuart. “Chiefly Abstract.” New York Times, 20 January 1952.

Fitzsimmons, James. “Master Toymaker.” Art Digest, vol. 26, no. 9 (1 February 1952).

“Airborne Abstracts.” Hollywood Home News (February 1952).

“New Mobiles at the Curt Valentin Gallery.” Interiors, vol. 111 (March 1952).

The Museum of Modern Art: Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions, July 1, 1950–June 30, 1951, vol. 14 (Spring 1952).

Shaprio, Karl. “Homage to Calder.” New Yorker, vol. 28, no. 6 (29 March 1952).

Gómez Sicre, José. “Master of Space and Time.” Américas, vol. 4, no. 4 (April 1952).

Hebbeln, Henry. “Nine Hillside Houses: Sand Point. Long Island.” The Magazine of Building: House & Home (April 1952).

Peju, Marcel. “Alexander Calder, Sculpteur du Mouvement Met Ses Atomes Crochus au Service du Théâtre ‘Nucléaire.’” Samedi-Soir, no. 355, 19 April 1952.

“Ces fils de fer sont le 1er décor atomique.” Paris-Presse L’Intransigeant, 21 April 1952.

Mannoni, Eugene. “Joujoux Pour Adultes les ‘Mobiles’ de Calder Tournaient Doucement . . .” Combat, 9 May 1952.

Courthion, Pierre. “Calder et la poésie de l’espace.” XXe siècle, no. 3 (June 1952).

Mellquist, Jerome. “Alexander Calder et Hans Fischer: hommes d’un langage nouveau.” Les Arts Plastiques (Brussels), vol. 5, no. 6 (June 1952).

Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany. Calder Mobile. Exhibition catalogue. 1952.

Saurel, Renee. “Le Theatre.” Messieurs (June 1952).

“Mobiles et mouvantes, les robes des demi-collections.” Elle, no. 341 (9 June 1952).

Venice. XXVI Biennale di Venezia. Exhibition catalogue. 1952. Introduction by Rodolfo Pallucchini; texts by Christian Zervos and James Johnson Sweeney (excerpt from MoMA 1943).

“U.S. Sculptor Honored.” New York Times, 16 June 1952.

Ott, Günther. “Schwebende Drahtplastiken.” Rundschau (Cologne), no. 138, 19 June 1952.

Oswald, Marianne. “Ce n’était pas avec du Chatterton.” Combat, 20 June 1952.

Falzoni, Giordano. “A Calder il Primo Premio.” Arti Visive, July–August 1952.

“La XXVI Biennale di Venezia.” Sele Arte (July–August 1952).

G. F. “Alexander Calder, lo scultore del filo di ferro.” La Nuova Sardesna Sassari, 2 July 1952.

Lombard, Suzanne. “Alexander Calder.” Le Soir, 8 July 1952.

Moderne Galerie Otto Stangl, Munich. Alexander Calder / Joan Miró. Exhibition catalogue. 1952.

Mellquist, Jerome. “Venice Biennale, 1952: Seeing a United Nations of Art.” Art Digest, vol. 26, no. 19 (August 1952).

Newton, Eric. “A Critic Wiretaps Alexander Calder.” New York Times Magazine (10 August 1952).

Seiberling, Dorothy. “Calder, his Gyrating ‘Mobile’ Art Wins International Fame and Prizes.” Life, vol. 33, no. 8 (25 August 1952).

“Venice: This Year’s Biennale.” Art News, vol. 51, no. 5 (September 1952).

“Optische Aeolsharfe: ‘Calder-Mobiles’–Abstraktes Spielzeug.” Stuttgarter Nachrichten, 27 September 1952.

Philadelphia Museum of Art and Fairmount Park Art Association. Sculpture of the Twentieth Century. Exhibition catalogue. 1952.

Brest, Jorge Romero. “La XXVI Bienal de Venecia.” Ver y Estimar, vol. 8, nos. 29–30 (November 1952).

Vietta, Egon. “Calder, der Ariel der eisernen Zivilisation.” Frankfurter Allgemeine, 13 November 1952.

Remszhardt, Godo. “Alexander Calder: Vitalität und Esprit.” Frankfurter Rundschau, 23 November 1952.

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. In Memory of Katherine S. Dreier 1877–1952: Her Own Collection of Modern Art. Exhibition catalogue. 1952.

Morris, George L. K. “La Sculpture Abstraite aux U.S.A.” Art d’ Aujourd’hui (January 1953).

Gheerbrant, B. “Permanence du Cirque.” Arts (2 & 6 January 1953).

Kreuther, Hellmut. “Der amerikanische Glasperlenspieler.” Der Kurier (Berlin), 19 January 1953.

“Courrier International des Arts.” Arts (16 & 22 January 1953).

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Unknown Political Prisoner. Exhibition catalogue. 1953.

“Calder’s Airborne Sculpture.” School Arts, vol. 52, no. 6 (February 1953).

Schumann, Werner. “Drei Berliner Künstler.” Die Neue Zeitung, 10 February 1953.

Hanna Bekker vom Rath/Frankfurter Kunstkabinett, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Alexander Calder, Paul Fontaine, Louise Rösler. Exhibition catalogue. 1953.

Davis, Richard S. “Cedarburg on Verge of Fame for Its Mobile.” The Milwaukee Journal, 25 February 1953.

“Mobiles Give Advertisers a New Medium.” Business Week (28 February 1953).

Tate Gallery, London. The Unknown Political Prisoner. Exhibition catalogue. 1953. Foreword by Herbert Read.

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Alexander Calder Mobiles. Exhibition catalogue. 1953.

Meta Mold Aluminum Company, Cedarburg, Wisconsin. An Exhibition of Contemporary Art Collected by American Business. Exhibition catalogue. 1953.

Sherman, John K. “Don’t Let That Space Dangle There Empty.” Minneapolis Tribune, 10 April 1953.

Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris. 12 Peintres et Sculpteurs Américains Contemporains. Exhibition catalogue. 1953.

“Autour de ‘Nucléa.’” Numero, no. 3 (May–June 1953).

Goodall, Donald. “Los Angeles.” Art Digest (June 1953).

Young, Villette. “Maker of Mobiles.” Hartford Courant Magazine (21 June 1953).

Rogers, W. G. “Sculpture on the Move Is the Calder Specialty.” (Publicaton unknown), 28 June 1953.

Meta Mold Aluminum Company, Cedarburg, Wisconsin. Art For Everyone. Exhibition catalogue. 1953.

Joffroy, Pierre. “Calder.” Paris Match, no. 233 (12 September 1953).

Ray, E. Roy. “Much Ado About Mobiles.” Hartford Courant Magazine (11 October 1953).

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford. Alexander Calder: Mobiles / Naum Gabo: Kinetic Constructions and Constructions in Space. Exhibition catalogue. 1953. Text by Charles E. Buckley.

“Sweeney Calls Moderns Explorers in Sculpture.” Hartford Times, 28 October 1953.

Schmidt, George. “Alexander Calder’s ‘Mobiles.’” Du (Zurich), vol. 13 (December 1953).

Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil. II Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo. Exhibition catalogue. 1953. Introduction by Sergio Milliet.

Curt Valentin Gallery, New York. Sculpture and Sculpture Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. 1953.

Bruguière, Pierre-Georges. “L’objet-mobile de Calder.” Cahiers d’Art, vol. 29, no. 2 (1954).

Arroyo, Miguel. “Muebles Modernos para una Casa Colonial.” A. Hombre y Expresión (January 1954).

Baukunst und werkform, no. 10 (1954).

Stably, Francois. “The University Centre of Caracas.” Graphis (1954).

Vieira, José Geraldo. “No Palacio das Nações.” Folha da Manhã, 3 January 1954.

Louchheim, Aline B. “Cultural Diplomacy: An Art We Neglect.” New York Times Magazine (3 January 1954).

“Novembre a Paris.” Vogue (November 1954).

El Farol, no. 150 (February 1954).

“Kunst oder Spielerei?” Sonntagsblatt, 28 February 1954.

Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany. Alexander Calder: Stabiles, Mobiles, Gouachen. Exhibition catalogue. 1954. Text by Alfred Hentzen; reprinted text by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Degand, Léon. “Les Spectacles A Paris: Le Cirque Calder.” Le Soir, 8 May 1954.

“Agamemnon on Time.” Time, vol. 63, no. 21 (24 May 1954).

Galerie Rudolf Hoffmann, Hamburg, Germany. Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1954. Foreword by Christian-Adolf Isermeyer.

Friedman, Shirley. “Creator of Wired Sculpture Chides Form’s Adulterators.” Newark Evening News, 22 July 1954.

“Originator of ‘Mobiles’ Comments on This Art.” Newark Evening News, 28 July 1954.