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Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers at Curt Valentin Gallery, 1952

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Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers
15 January–10 February 1952Curt Valentin Gallery, New York
Related documents  5
Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers (1952)
Installation photograph, Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers, Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, 1952Photograph by Adolph Studly © Adolph Studly
Installation photograph, Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers, Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, 1952
Photograph by Adolph Studly
Inventory drawing, Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers (1952)
Inventory drawing, Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers, Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, 1952Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison; The Terese & Alvin S. Lane Collection, 2010
Inventory drawing, Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers, Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, 1952
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Inventory drawing, Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers (1952)
Inventory drawing, Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers, Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, 1952Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison; The Terese & Alvin S. Lane Collection, 2010
Inventory drawing, Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers, Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, 1952
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Illustration for Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers (1951)
Illustration of Thirty-Two Discs (1951), Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers, Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, 1952Calder Foundation, New York; Gift of Andréa Davidson, Shawn Davidson, Alexander S. C. Rower & Holton Rower, 2013
Illustration of Thirty-Two Discs (1951), Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers, Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, 1952
Calder Foundation, New York
Illustration for Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers (1951)
Illustration of Triple Gong (1951), Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers, Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, 1952Calder Foundation, New York; Gift of Andréa Davidson, Shawn Davidson, Alexander S. C. Rower & Holton Rower, 2013
Illustration of Triple Gong (1951), Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers, Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, 1952
Calder Foundation, New York
Selected works  13
Laocoön (1947)
Laocoön, 1947
Vertical out of Horizontal (c. 1948)
Vertical out of Horizontal, 1948
New Blériot (c. 1950)
New Blériot, c. 1950
Triple Gong (1951)
Triple Gong, 1951
Streetcar (1951)
Streetcar, 1951
Sumac with Gong (1951)
Sumac with Gong, 1951
Black Side, White Side (1951)
Black Side, White Side, 1951
Demi Gondola (1951)
Demi Gondola, 1951
Thirty-Two Discs (1951)
Thirty-Two Discs, 1951
Bifurcated Tower (1951)
Bifurcated Tower, 1951
Tower with Orange Band (1951)
Tower with Orange Band, 1951
Tower with Painting (1951)
Tower with Painting, 1951
Tower with Pinwheel (1951)
Tower with Pinwheel, 1951
Selected publications  6

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

Solo Exhibition Catalogue

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

Magazine

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

Newspaper

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

Magazine

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

Magazine

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

Newspaper
Chronology  1
15 January–10 February 1952

Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, exhibits “Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers.” The catalogue texts are “Alexander Calder’s Mobiles” by Sweeney and “Calder” by Léger, with drawings by Calder of the objects exhibited.

Archive
Exhibitions / 1946–1952: International Distinction 6

Galerie Louis Carré, Paris. Alexander Calder: Mobiles, Stabiles, Constellations. 25 October–16 November 1946.

Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York. Alexander Calder. 9–27 December 1947.

Ministério da Educação e Saúde, Rio de Janeiro. Alexander Calder. September 1948.

New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Calder. 5 December 1950–14 January 1951.

Related Timeline
1946–1952
1946–1952 International Distinction

Calder had a major show in 1946 at Galerie Louis Carré in Paris for which Jean-Paul Sartre wrote a seminal essay. He designed sets and costumes for a number of theatrical performances and designed a huge acoustic ceiling for the Aula Magna auditorium at Universidad Central de Venezuela. In 1952, Calder represented the United States at the Venice Biennale, winning the grand prize for sculpture.