Roxbury house “front room” (c. 1965)

A partial view of Ellsworth Kelly’s Charmettes I (1956, positioned upside down), Jack Youngerman’s Black Blue Yellow White (study, 1958; positioned on its side), Blue Screen (1945), Louisa Calder’s dress form, Untitled (c. 1940), Light fixture (c. 1935), and Untitled (c. 1944, positioned upside down), Roxbury house "front room," c. 1965Photograph by Francois Tuefferd

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Untitled, c. 1944

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1963–1976

1963–1976 Monumental Works

In 1963, Calder completed construction of a large studio overlooking the Indre Valley. With the assistance of a full-scale, industrial ironworks, he began to fabricate his monumental works in France and devoted much of his later working years to public commissions. Calder died in New York in 1976 at the age of seventy-eight.