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Triangle with Ears, 1966

Work

Triangle with Ears

Date 1966
Media
Sheet metal, bolts, and paint
Dimensions
90" × 65"
Collection
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York; Gift of Edith Ferry Hooper '32, 1975
Monumental Sculpture, Stabile
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Historical Photos  1
Little Fountain (1967)
Little Fountain and Triangle with Ears (both 1966), Harlem, New York, 1967Photograph by Ugo Mulas © Ugo Mulas Heirs
Little Fountain and Triangle with Ears (both 1966), Harlem, New York, 1967
Photograph by Ugo Mulas
Chronology  1
October 1967

New York City holds an outdoor group exhibition, “Sculpture in Environment.” Given the choice of any site in the city, Calder places two stabiles, Little Fountain and Triangle with Ears, in Harlem.

Archive
Works / Monumental Sculpture 217
Hard to Swallow (1966)
Hard to Swallow, 1966
Large Spiny (1966)
Large Spiny, 1966
The Spinner (1966)
The Spinner, 1966
The Tree (1966)
The Tree, 1966
Works / Stabile 251
Four Dishes, 1967
Untitled (maquette) (c. 1967)
Untitled (maquette), c. 1967
Monsieur Loyal (1:5 intermediate maquette) (1967)
Monsieur Loyal (1:5 intermediate maquette), 1967
Monsieur Loyal (1967)
Monsieur Loyal, 1967
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.