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Yellow Panel, 1936

Work

Yellow Panel

Date 1936
Media
Plywood, sheet metal, wood, rod, wire, and paint
Dimensions
48 1⁄2” × 32 1⁄8” × 30 1⁄2”
Collection
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Panel / Frame, Wall Sculpture
Related exhibitions  3
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (1937)

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York. Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles. 23 February–13 March 1937.

Solo Exhibition
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1998)

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Alexander Calder: 1898–1976. 29 March–12 July 1998.

Solo Exhibition
Tate Modern, London (2015)

Tate Modern, London. Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture. 11 November 2015–3 April 2016.

Solo Exhibition
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 42
Untitled (1937)
Untitled, 1937
Mobile with Four Spots (1941)
Mobile with Four Spots, 1941
S and Star (1941)
S and Star, 1941
Untitled (1943)
Untitled, 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.”