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Little Yellow Panel, c. 1936

Work

Little Yellow Panel

Date c. 1936
Media
Sheet metal, wood, rod, wire, string, and paint
Dimensions
40 3⁄4" × 12" × 14"
Collection
Seattle Art Museum; Promised Gift of Jon & Mary Shirley (no. T2003.17.1)
Panel / Frame, Wall Sculpture
Historical Photos  1
Roxbury studio (1941)
The Great Yucca, Uprooted Whip (1940), and Yucca, Roxbury studio, 1941Photograph by Herbert Matter © Calder Foundation, New York
The Great Yucca, Uprooted Whip (1940), and Yucca, Roxbury studio, 1941
Photograph by Herbert Matter
Archive
Works / Panel / Frame 24
Little Yellow Panel (1936)
Little Yellow Panel , 1936
Object with Yellow Background (1936)
Object with Yellow Background, 1936
Yellow Panel (c. 1936)
Yellow Panel, c. 1936
The Orange Panel (1936)
The Orange Panel, 1936
Works / Wall Sculpture 40
Untitled (1937)
Untitled, 1937
Mobile with Four Spots (1941)
Mobile with Four Spots, 1941
S and Star (1941)
S and Star, 1941
Constellation (1943)
Constellation, 1943
Related Timeline
1930–1936
1930–1936 Shift to Abstraction

Following a visit in October of 1930 to Piet Mondrian’s studio, where he was impressed by the environmental installation, Calder made his first wholly abstract compositions and invented the kinetic sculpture now known as the mobile. Coined for these works by Marcel Duchamp in 1931, the word “mobile” refers to both “motion” and “motive” in French. He also created stationary abstract works that Jean Arp dubbed “stabiles.”