Current & Upcoming Exhibitions

Organized around the extraordinary gift of the Shirley Family Calder Collection to the Seattle Art Museum, this exhibition presents a non-chronological narrative that covers Calder’s career throughout the decades. It features significant examples from the artist’s production—including wire sculptures, mobiles, stabiles, and standing mobiles—that range in scale from the miniature to the monumental.

Three large-scale stabiles on loan from the Calder Foundation are installed among the rolling hills of Storm King.

One of the two tower galleries in the museum’s I.M. Pei-designed East Building boasts the world’s largest permanent display of works by Calder, including several long-term loans from the Calder Foundation.

Calder’s friend, the critic Giovanni Carandente, donated a large portion of his personal collection to establish a modern art gallery in Spoleto’s Palazzo Collicola in 2000. Included is a permanent installation of Calder’s work and a maquette for the city’s monumental stabile Teodelapio, which the artist executed in 1962.