Work

Flamingo (1:5 intermediate maquette)

Date 1973

Media

Sheet metal and paint

Dimensions

11' × 16' × 8'

Collection

The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga Otsu

Monumental Sculpture, Stabile

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Flamingo (maquette), 1972

Flamingo, 1973

Chronology 1

25 October 1974

The festival “Alexander Calder Day” in Chicago includes a circus parade with the Schlitz forty-horse hitch and the dedications of the motorized Universe at the Sears Tower and the monumental stabile Flamingo at the Federal Center Plaza. Calder is given a key to the city by Mayor Richard M. Daley.

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Flamingo, 1973

Four Arches, 1973

Untitled, 1973

Crinkly with a Red Disc, 1973

Works / Stabile 251

Untitled (maquette), c. 1974

Flying Dragon (maquette), c. 1974

Black Flag, 1974

Cheval rouge, 1974

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.