Calder Foundation

The Spinner

Date 1966
Media
Sheet metal, rod, bolts, and paint
Dimensions
17'5" high
Collection
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Gift of Dayton Hudson Corporation, 1971
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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
Works / Monumental Sculpture 216
Works / Standing Mobile 266
Related Timeline
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.