Ring
Date c. 1940
Media
Silver wire
Dimensions
2" × 1" × 1"
Collection
Calder Foundation, New York
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome. Calder: Sculptor of Air. 23 October 2009–14 February 2010.
Solo Exhibition
Museo Jumex, Mexico City. Calder: Discipline of the Dance. 21 March–28 June 2015.
Solo ExhibitionIn 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.
