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Flying Dragon, 1975

Work

Flying Dragon

Date 1975
Media
Sheet metal, bolts, and paint
Dimensions
30' × 56' × 21'6"
Collection
Private Collection
Monumental Sculpture, Stabile
Related works  2
Flying Dragon (maquette) (c. 1974)
Flying Dragon (maquette), c. 1974
Flying Dragon (intermediate maquette) (1975)
Flying Dragon (intermediate maquette), 1975
Archive
Works / Monumental Sculpture 218
The Arch (1975)
The Arch, 1975
The Red Feather (1975)
The Red Feather, 1975
Angulaire (1975)
Angulaire, 1975
Little Janey Waney (1976)
Little Janey Waney, 1976
Works / Stabile 251
Untitled (maquette) (1976)
Untitled (maquette), 1976
Jerusalem Stabile III (1976)
Jerusalem Stabile III, 1976
Jerusalem Stabile II (1976)
Jerusalem Stabile II, 1976
Jerusalem Stabile I (1976)
Jerusalem Stabile I, 1976
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.