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Unspillable ashtray, c. 1940

Work

Unspillable ashtray

Date c. 1940
Media
Sheet metal
Dimensions
14 1⁄4" × 6 1⁄2" × 3 1⁄4"
Collection
Calder Foundation, New York
Household Object
Related exhibitions  1
Hauser & Wirth, Somerset (2018)

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

Solo Exhibition
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Works / Household Object 55
Ashtray (c. 1940)
Ashtray, c. 1940
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Light shade, c. 1940
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Measuring spoons, c. 1940
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.