Calder Foundation

Red, Black and Blue

Date 1968
Media
Sheet metal, stainless steel struts, and paint, with motor
Dimensions
35' wide
Collection
Milwaukee County General Mitchell International Airport, Gift of Lloyd & Jane Pettit, 1987
Map of installed works
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Works / Hanging Mobile 167
Works / Monumental Sculpture 217
Related Timeline
1963–1976 Monumental Works

In 1963, Calder completed construction of a large studio overlooking the Indre Valley. With the assistance of a full-scale, industrial ironworks, he began to fabricate his monumental works in France and devoted much of his later working years to public commissions. Calder died in New York in 1976 at the age of seventy-eight.