Work

Gwenfritz

Date 1968

Media

Sheet metal, bolts, and paint

Dimensions

35' high

Collection

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Gift of the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, 1969

Monumental Sculpture, Stabile

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Historical Photos 1

Gwenfritz (1968), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., c. 1969

Featured Text 1

Calder’s International Monuments by Robert Osborn

Osborn, Robert. “Calder’s International Monuments.” Art in America, vol. 57, no. 2 (March–April 1969).

Magazine

Related works 1

Gwenfritz (1:5 intermediate maquette), 1968

Chronology 1

3 June 1969

Calder attends the dedication ceremony for his commissioned monumental stabile Gwenfritz, which is installed outside the Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Works / Monumental Sculpture 218

Three Discs, One Missing, 1968

Three Discs, One Lacking, 1968

Spinal Column, 1968

Nénuphar, 1968

Works / Stabile 251

The Hawk for Peace, 1968

Lund, 1968

Untitled, 1968

Trois bollards (maquette), 1969

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.