Work

Dinner bell

Date c. 1942

Media

Glass and wire

Dimensions

6 5⁄8" × 4 1⁄4" × 3 3⁄4"

Collection

Calder Foundation, New York

Household Object, Sound-making Work

Historical Photos 1

Dinner bell (c. 1942), Roxbury house "big room," 1950Photograph by Herbert Matter © Calder Foundation, New York

Dinner bell (c. 1942), Roxbury house “big room,” 1950

Photograph by Herbert Matter

Related exhibitions 1

Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, England. Calder: From the Stony River to the Sky. 26 May 2018–9 September 2018.

Solo Exhibition

Selected films 1

Alexander Calder: From the Circus to the Moon 1963Produced and directed by Hans Richter

Works / Household Object 55

Toaster, c. 1942

Animal ashtray, c. 1943

Silver bed head, 1943

Chess set, c. 1944

Works / Sound-making Work 38

Black Tulip, 1942

Tines, 1943

4 + 3, 1944

Man-Eater with Pennants, 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.