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Mobile, 1941

Work

Mobile

Date 1941
Media
Sheet metal, wire, and paint
Dimensions
44" × 126" × 126"
Collection
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Gift of the Aluminum Company of America, 1995
Hanging Mobile
Historical Photos  4
Calder, Roxbury studio (1941)
Calder, Roxbury studio, 1941Photograph by Herbert Matter © Calder Foundation, New York
Calder, Roxbury studio, 1941
Photograph by Herbert Matter
Calder, Roxbury studio (1941)
Calder, Roxbury studio, 1941Photograph by Herbert Matter © Calder Foundation, New York
Calder, Roxbury studio, 1941
Photograph by Herbert Matter
Roxbury studio (1941)
Mobile, Aluminum Leaves, Red Post, Un effet du japonais, Giraffe, and The Great Yucca, Roxbury studio, 1941Photograph by Herbert Matter © Calder Foundation, New York
Mobile, Aluminum Leaves, Red Post, Un effet du japonais, Giraffe, and The Great Yucca, Roxbury studio, 1941
Photograph by Herbert Matter
Hotel Avila Ballroom (1941)
Mobile, Hotel Avila Ballroom, Caracas, Venezuela, 1941
Mobile, Hotel Avila Ballroom, Caracas, Venezuela, 1941
Chronology  1
1941

Harrison commissions Calder to make a mobile for the Hotel Avila Ballroom, Caracas, Venezuela.

Archive
Works / Hanging Mobile 167
Peacock (1941)
Peacock, 1941
Untitled (1941)
Untitled, 1941
Vertical Foliage (1941)
Vertical Foliage, 1941
Untitled (1941)
Untitled, 1941
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.