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The Stevens Mobile, 1970

Work

The Stevens Mobile

Date 1970
Media
Sheet metal, rod, and paint
Dimensions
approx. 7' × 6'9" × 13'10"
Collection
S. C. Williams Library, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey; Gift of the Artist, 1970
Hanging Mobile, Monumental Sculpture
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Chronology  1
1970

In France, Calder makes The Stevens Mobile to commemorate Stevens’ one-hundredth anniversary.

Archive
Works / Hanging Mobile 167
National Gallery V (maquette) (1972)
National Gallery V (maquette), 1972
White Cascade (maquette) (1973)
White Cascade (maquette), 1973
National Gallery (intermediate maquette) (1973)
National Gallery (intermediate maquette), 1973
3 Segments (1973)
3 Segments, 1973
Works / Monumental Sculpture 217
Trois bollards (1970)
Trois bollards, 1970
Brontosaurus (1970)
Brontosaurus, 1970
Bollard (1970)
Bollard, 1970
Jeune fille et sa suite (1970)
Jeune fille et sa suite, 1970
Related Timeline
1963–1976
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.