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The Big I, 1944

Work

The Big I

Date 1944
Media
Soft-ground etching on Rives
Dimensions
6 7⁄8" × 8 7⁄8"
Publisher
Published by the Artist; distributed by Wittenborn & Co., New York
Printer
Printed by Atelier 17, New York
Edition size
Edition of 30
Print
Related exhibitions  1
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2021)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Alexander Calder: Modern from the Start. 14 March 2021–15 January 2022.

Solo Exhibition
Archive
Works / Print 70
Untitled (1946)
Untitled, 1946
Untitled (1946)
Untitled, 1946
Untitled (1946)
Untitled, 1946
Untitled (1946)
Untitled, 1946
Related Timeline
1937–1945
1937–1945 Public Commissions and the War

In 1937, Calder completed Devil Fish, his first stabile enlarged from a model. He received two important commissions: Mercury Fountain (1937) and Lobster Trap and Fish Tail (1939). His first retrospective was held in 1938 at the George Walter Vincent Smith Gallery in Springfield, Massachusetts, followed by another in 1943 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.