Work

Stegosaurus

Date 1972

Media

Sheet metal, bolts, and paint

Dimensions

600" high

Collection

Ella Burr McManus Trust

Monumental Sculpture, Stabile

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Historical Photos 4

Installation of Stegosaurus, Hartford, Connecticut, 1973

Installation of Stegosaurus, Hartford, Connecticut, 1973Photograph by David Robbins

Stegosaurus, Hartford, Connecticut, 1973Photograph by David Robbins

Related works 2

Stegosaurus (maquette), 1972

Stegosaurus (intermediate maquette), 1972

Chronology 1

10 October 1973

Calder attends the dedication ceremony for the monumental stabile Stegosaurus at the Alfred E. Burr Memorial Mall in Hartford. Following the event, he receives an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the University of Hartford.

Works / Monumental Sculpture 216

Obus, 1972

Quatre ailes, 1972

Cinq Pics, 1972

Untitled, 1972

Works / Stabile 251

Tripes (maquette), 1973

Red Curlicue (maquette), 1973

Black Flag (maquette), c. 1973

Le Chien en trois couleurs (maquette), c. 1973

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.