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Triangles and Arches, 1965

Work

Triangles and Arches

Date 1965
Media
Sheet metal, bolts, and paint
Dimensions
19' × 30'
Collection
State of New York, Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection, Albany, 1966
Monumental Sculpture, Stabile
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Historical Photos  1
Calder outside the Le Carroi studio, Saché (1967)

Calder with Le Faucon (1963), Les Trois ailes (1963), and Triangles and Arches (1965) outside the Le Carroi studio, Saché, 1967

Photograph by Tony Vaccaro / Tony Vaccaro Archives

Calder with Le Faucon (1963), Les Trois ailes (1963), and Triangles and Arches (1965) outside the Le Carroi studio, Saché, 1967

Photograph by Tony Vaccaro
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
Archive
Works / Monumental Sculpture 217
La Grande voile (1965)
La Grande voile, 1965
The Onion (1965)
The Onion, 1965
Shiva (1965)
Shiva, 1965
Le Baron (1965)
Le Baron, 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.