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Fish, 1945

Work

Fish

Date 1945
Media
Rod, wire, plastic, wood, glass, ceramic, string, and paint
Dimensions
16 1⁄4" × 48 1⁄8" × 4 1⁄2"
Collection
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1966
Fish, Hanging Mobile
Related exhibitions  1
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2019)

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor. 5 April–4 August 2019. Originated from Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Solo Exhibition
Archive
Works / Fish 12
Fish (c. 1945)
Fish, c. 1945
Fish (1947)
Fish, 1947
Roxbury Fish (c. 1948)
Roxbury Fish, c. 1948
Finny Fish (1948)
Finny Fish, 1948
Works / Hanging Mobile 167
The S-Shaped Vine (1946)
The S-Shaped Vine, 1946
Bosquet is the Best Best (1946)
Bosquet is the Best Best, 1946
Four Red Spots (1946)
Four Red Spots , 1946
Ogunquit (1946)
Ogunquit, 1946
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.