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Silver bed head, 1943

Work

Silver bed head

Date 1943
Media
Silver wire
Dimensions
63" × 51 9⁄16"
Collection
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 1976 (no. 76.2553.138)
Household Object
Archive
Works / Household Object 55
Chess set (c. 1944)
Chess set, c. 1944
Toaster (c. 1945)
Toaster, c. 1945
Serving spoon (c. 1945)
Serving spoon, c. 1945
Chess set (c. 1945)
Chess set, 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.