Calder Foundation

Quilt

Date 1966
Media
Lithograph
Dimensions
22" × 30"
Publisher
Published by the Founder's Society, Detroit Institute of Arts to commemorate the opening of the South Wing
Printer
Printed by Mourlot, Paris
Edition size
Limited edition of 600, signed and unnumbered
Works / Print 70
Related Timeline
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.