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The Forest is the Best Place, 1945

Work

The Forest is the Best Place

Date 1945
Media
Sheet metal, wire, and paint
Dimensions
approx. 10' high
Collection
Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Gift of Friends of Moderna Museet, 1958
Hanging Mobile
Historical Photos  3
4 Modern Sculptors: Brancusi, Calder, Lipchitz, Moore (1946)
Installation photograph, 4 Modern Sculptors: Brancusi, Calder, Lipchitz, Moore, Cincinnati Modern Art Society, Ohio, 1946
Installation photograph, 4 Modern Sculptors: Brancusi, Calder, Lipchitz, Moore, Cincinnati Modern Art Society, Ohio, 1946
The Forest is the Best Place (1945), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1961)
The Forest is the Best Place (1945), Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1961
The Forest is the Best Place (1945), Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1961
Alexander Calder: Sculpture–Mobiles (1962)
Installation photograph, Alexander Calder: Sculpture–Mobiles, Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery, London, 1962
Installation photograph, Alexander Calder: Sculpture–Mobiles, Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery, London, 1962
Related exhibitions  1
Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery, London (1962)

Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery, London. Alexander Calder: Sculpture–Mobiles. 4 July–12 August 1962.

Solo Exhibition
Archive
Works / Hanging Mobile 167
Scarlet Digitals (1945)
Scarlet Digitals, 1945
23 feuilles à l’écart (1945)
23 feuilles à l'écart, 1945
Fish (1945)
Fish, 1945
Fish (c. 1945)
Fish, c. 1945
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.