Opening for Alexander Calder: Sculptures and Constructions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 1943. From left to right: Yves Tanguy, James Johnson Sweeney, Calder, and Peter Blume.Photograph by Newspictures
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.
