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Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles at Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1937

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Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles
23 February–13 March 1937Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Related documents  14
Inventory drawing for Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles (1937)
Inventory drawing of 27 objects considered for inclusion in Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Inventory drawing of 27 objects considered for inclusion in Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Recto of double-sided installation drawing of 33 objects in Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles (1937)
Recto of double-sided installation drawing of 33 objects in Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Recto of double-sided installation drawing of 33 objects in Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Verso of double-sided installation drawing of 33 objects in Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles (1937)
Verso of double-sided installation drawing of 33 objects in Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Verso of double-sided installation drawing of 33 objects in Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Invitation for Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937
Invitation for Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937
Invitation for Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937
Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles (1937)
Installation photograph, Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937Photograph by Herbert Matter © Calder Foundation, New York
Installation photograph, Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937
Photograph by Herbert Matter
Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles (1937)
Installation photograph, Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937Photograph by Herbert Matter © Calder Foundation, New York
Installation photograph, Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937
Photograph by Herbert Matter
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (1937)
Installation photograph showing Untitled (1936), Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937Photograph by Herbert Matter © Calder Foundation, New York
Installation photograph showing Untitled (1936), Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937
Photograph by Herbert Matter
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (1937)
Installation photograph showing Untitled, Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937Photograph by Herbert Matter © Calder Foundation, New York
Installation photograph showing Untitled, Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937
Photograph by Herbert Matter
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (1937)
Installation photograph showing Devil Fish, Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937Photograph by Herbert Matter © Calder Foundation, New York
Installation photograph showing Devil Fish, Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937
Photograph by Herbert Matter
Hi! (1937)
Installation photograph showing Hi! (c. 1928), Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937Photograph by Herbert Matter © Calder Foundation, New York
Installation photograph showing Hi! (c. 1928), Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937
Photograph by Herbert Matter
Snake and the Cross (1937)
Installation photograph showing Snake and the Cross (1936), Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937Photograph by Herbert Matter © Calder Foundation, New York
Installation photograph showing Snake and the Cross (1936), Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937
Photograph by Herbert Matter
Starfish (1937)
Installation photograph showing Starfish (1934), Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937Photograph by Herbert Matter © Calder Foundation, New York
Installation photograph showing Starfish (1934), Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937
Photograph by Herbert Matter
Tightrope (1937)
Installation photograph showing Tightrope (1936), White Panel (1936), and Untitled, Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937Photograph by Herbert Matter © Calder Foundation, New York
Installation photograph showing Tightrope (1936), White Panel (1936), and Untitled, Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937
Photograph by Herbert Matter
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (1937)
Installation photograph, Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937Photograph by Herbert Matter
Installation photograph, Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937Photograph by Herbert Matter
Selected works  18
Hi! (c. 1928)
Hi!, c. 1928
Starfish (1934)
Starfish, 1934
Untitled (1935)
Untitled, 1935
Elephant (1936)
Elephant, 1936
Big Bird (maquette) (1936)
Big Bird (maquette), 1936
Stabile (1936)
Stabile, 1936
Ex-Octopus (maquette) (1936)
Ex-Octopus (maquette), 1936
Tightrope (1936)
Tightrope, 1936
Cello on a Spindle (1936)
Cello on a Spindle, 1936
Snake and the Cross (1936)
Snake and the Cross, 1936
Blue Panel (1936)
Blue Panel, 1936
Swizzle Sticks (1936)
Swizzle Sticks, 1936
Little Yellow Panel (1936)
Little Yellow Panel , 1936
White Panel (1936)
White Panel, 1936
Red Panel (1936)
Red Panel, 1936
Devil Fish (1937)
Devil Fish, 1937
Big Bird (1937)
Big Bird, 1937
Untitled (1937)
Untitled, 1937
Selected publications  8

“Stabiles and Mobiles.” Time, vol. 29, no. 9 (1 March 1937).

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Magazine

Frankel, Robert. “Calder: A Humorous and Inventive Artist.” Art News, vol. 35 (13 March 1937).

Magazine

Genauer, Emily. “What’s New In Art: Calder Work Original, At Least.” New York World-Telegram, 27 February 1937.

Newspaper

McBride, Henry. “Two Extreme Modernists: Calder’s Gay Mobiles Suggest the War is Over; Tommy Says No.” New York Sun, 27 February 1937.

Newspaper

B., A.”Calder: Artist as Toymaker.” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 28 February 1937.

Newspaper

McCausland, Elizabeth. “Stabiles and Mobiles by Alexander Calder.” Springfield Sunday Union and Republican, 28 February 1937.

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Jewell, Edward Alden. “Fantasy Rears Its Head.” New York Times, 28 February 1937.

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Vaughan, Malcolm. “Alexander Calder.” New York American, 6 March 1937.

Newspaper
Chronology  1
23 February–13 March 1937

Calder’s first large-scale bolted stabiles, Devil Fish and Big Bird, are on view in “Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles” at the Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.

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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.