George Walter Vincent Smith Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts (1938)

Calder Mobiles

8–27 November 1938George Walter Vincent Smith Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts

Related documents 1

The opening of Calder Mobiles, George Walter Vincent Smith Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1938. From left to right: Louisa Calder, Aino Aalto, Cordelia Sargent Pond, Katherine Dreier, Siegfried Giedion, Alvar Aalto, Calder, and Fernand Léger.

Selected works 12

Very Flat Cat, 1926

Horse, 1928

Elephant, 1928

Wire Sculpture by Calder, 1928

Marion Greenwood, 1928

The Brass Family, 1929

Double Cat, 1930

Katharine Cornell, 1931

Small Feathers, 1931

Money Bags, 1934

Snake and the Cross, 1936

White Panel, 1936

Selected publications 2

George Walter Vincent Smith Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts. Calder Mobiles. Exhibition catalogue. 1938. Foreword by James Johnson Sweeney.

Solo Exhibition Catalogue

Rogers, W. G. “Local Color.” Springfield Union, 9 November 1938.

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Chronology 1

8–27 November 1938

Calder’s first retrospective, “Calder Mobiles,” is presented by the George Walter Vincent Smith Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts. Sweeney writes a foreword to the catalogue. Aalto, Léger, architectural historian Siegfried Giedion, and art patron Katherine S. Dreier attend the

opening. Sixty-one pieces of jewelry are included in the exhibition.

Exhibitions / 1937–1945: Public Commissions and the War 6

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York. Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles. 23 February–13 March 1937.

George Walter Vincent Smith Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts. Calder Mobiles. 8–27 November 1938.

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York. Calder. 14 May–1 June 1940.

Willard Gallery, New York. Calder Jewelry. 3–25 December 1940.

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1937–1945

1937–1945 Public Commissions and the War

In 1937, Calder completed Devil Fish, his first stabile enlarged from a model. He received two important commissions: Mercury Fountain (1937) and Lobster Trap and Fish Tail (1939). His first retrospective was held in 1938 at the George Walter Vincent Smith Gallery in Springfield, Massachusetts, followed by another in 1943 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.