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Three Quintains, 1964

Work

Three Quintains

Date 1964
Media
Sheet metal, rod, and paint, with motor
Dimensions
3 parts: 22'11" × 24'; 8'9" × 10'; 15' × 12'
Collection
Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Gift of Art Museum Council, 1965
Monumental Sculpture, Standing Mobile
Historical Photos  3
Calder at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1964)
Calder and ironworker Chippy Ieronimo at the installation of Three Quintains, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1964
Calder and ironworker Chippy Ieronimo at the installation of Three Quintains, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1964
Calder at Waterbury Iron Works (1964)
Calder after assembling Three Quintains, Waterbury Iron Works, Connecticut, 1964Photograph by Ugo Mulas © Ugo Mulas Heirs
Calder after assembling Three Quintains, Waterbury Iron Works, Connecticut, 1964
Photograph by Ugo Mulas
Three Quintains (1966)
Three Quintains (1964), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1966
Three Quintains (1964), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1966
Related exhibitions  1
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2013)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic. 24 November 2013–27 July 2014.

Solo Exhibition
Related works  1
Three Quintains (maquette) (1964)
Three Quintains (maquette), 1964
Archive
Works / Monumental Sculpture 216
Five Rudders (1964)
Five Rudders, 1964
Sandy’s Butterfly (1964)
Sandy’s Butterfly, 1964
Toile d’araignée (1965)
Toile d'araignée, 1965
Deux Discs (1965)
Deux Discs, 1965
Works / Standing Mobile 266
Untitled (c. 1965)
Untitled, c. 1965
Brasilia (1965)
Brasilia, 1965
3 flèches blanches (1965)
3 flèches blanches, 1965
The Tree (1966)
The Tree, 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.