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The Onion, 1965

Work

The Onion

Date 1965
Media
Sheet metal, bolts, and paint
Dimensions
74 2⁄3" × 82 2⁄3" × 86 2⁄3"
Collection
Harvard University, President and Fellows of Harvard College; Gift of Susan Morse Hilles
Monumental Sculpture, Stabile
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The Onion (1964)
Calder inspecting The Onion (1965, before completion) at Segré's Iron Works, Waterbury, Connecticut, 1964Photograph by Inge Morath © The Inge Morath Foundation / Magnum Photo
Calder inspecting The Onion (1965, before completion) at Segré’s Iron Works, Waterbury, Connecticut, 1964
Photograph by Inge Morath
Archive
Works / Monumental Sculpture 217
La Grande voile (1965)
La Grande voile, 1965
Shiva (1965)
Shiva, 1965
Le Baron (1965)
Le Baron, 1965
Triangles and Arches (1965)
Triangles and Arches, 1965
Works / Stabile 251
Object in Five Planes (1965)
Object in Five Planes, 1965
Têtes et queue (1965)
Têtes et queue, 1965
Trois disques (maquette) (1966)
Trois disques (maquette), 1966
Tom’s (maquette) (c. 1966)
Tom's (maquette), c. 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.