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Hanging Spider, 1940

Work

Hanging Spider

Date 1940
Media
Sheet metal, wire, and paint
Dimensions
49 1⁄2" × 35 1⁄2"
Collection
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Mrs. John B. Putnam Bequest (no. 1984.41)
Hanging Mobile
Related exhibitions  2
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1976)

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Calder’s Universe. 14 October 1976–6 February 1977.

Solo Exhibition
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2017)

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Calder: Hypermobility. 9 June–23 October 2017.

Solo Exhibition
Archive
Works / Hanging Mobile 167
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Untitled (c. 1940)
Untitled, c. 1940
Red Disc and Gong II (1940)
Red Disc and Gong II, 1940
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.