Tightrope Worker
Date 1944
Media
Bronze (in three sections), rod, and string
Dimensions
22" × 30" × 15 1⁄2"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Calder’s Universe. 14 October 1976–6 February 1977.
Solo Exhibition
Palazzo a Vela, Turin, Italy. Calder: Mostra retrospettiva. 2 July–25 September 1983.
Solo Exhibition
Musée Picasso, Paris. Calder-Picasso. 19 February–25 August 2019.
Group Exhibition
Centro Botín, Santander, Spain. Calder Stories. 29 June–3 November 2019.
Solo ExhibitionIn 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.
