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Five Rudders, 1964

Work

Five Rudders

Date 1964
Media
Sheet metal, rod, bolts, and paint
Dimensions
12' 10" × 10' 10 1⁄2"
Collection
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis; Gift of Mrs. Mark C. Steinberg, 1964 (no. WU 4220)
Monumental Sculpture, Standing Mobile
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Related exhibitions  1
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1964)

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition. 6 November 1964–31 January 1965.

Solo Exhibition
Archive
Works / Monumental Sculpture 217
Sandy’s Butterfly (1964)
Sandy’s Butterfly, 1964
Toile d’araignée (1965)
Toile d'araignée, 1965
Deux Discs (1965)
Deux Discs, 1965
La Grande voile (intermediate maquette) (1965)
La Grande voile (intermediate maquette), 1965
Works / Standing Mobile 269
Untitled (c. 1965)
Untitled, c. 1965
Brasilia (1965)
Brasilia, 1965
3 flèches blanches (1965)
3 flèches blanches, 1965
The Tree (1966)
The Tree, 1966
Related Timeline
1963–1976
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.