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Fish, 1942

Work

Fish

Date 1942
Media
Rod, wire, glass, porcelain, string, and paint
Dimensions
15" × 36 1⁄2"
Collection
Seattle Art Museum; Promised Gift of Jon & Mary Shirley (no. T2023.11.13)
Fish, Hanging Mobile
Archive
Works / Fish 12
The Fish (1944)
The Fish, 1944
Fish (1944)
Fish, 1944
Fish (1945)
Fish, 1945
Fish (c. 1945)
Fish, c. 1945
Works / Hanging Mobile 167
Clangors (1942)
Clangors, 1942
Constellation Mobile (1943)
Constellation Mobile, 1943
Plain Wood (c. 1943)
Plain Wood, c. 1943
Red Sticks (c. 1943)
Red Sticks, c. 1943
Related Timeline
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.