Calder Foundation

Toile d'araignée

Date 1965
Media
Sheet metal, rod, wire, and paint
Dimensions
9' 10" × 19' 8 1⁄4"
Collection
Seattle Art Museum; Promised Gift of Jon & Mary Shirley (no. T2009.56.30)
Related exhibitions  2
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris (1965)

Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris. Calder. 8 July–15 October 1965. Originated from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Solo Exhibition
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France (1969)

Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France. Calder. 2 April–31 May 1969.

Solo Exhibition
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.