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Flamingo (maquette), 1972

Work

Flamingo (maquette)

Date 1972
Media
Sheet metal and paint
Dimensions
15 5⁄8" × 18 1⁄8" × 10"
Collection
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., transfer from General Services Administration, 1980 (no. 1980.49.3)
Stabile
Related exhibitions  3
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1976)

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Calder’s Universe. 14 October 1976–6 February 1977.

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
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2019)

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor. 5 April–4 August 2019. Originated from Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Solo Exhibition
Related works  2
Flamingo (1:5 intermediate maquette) (1973)
Flamingo (1:5 intermediate maquette), 1973
Flamingo (1973)
Flamingo, 1973
Archive
Works / Stabile 251
Stegosaurus (maquette) (1972)
Stegosaurus (maquette), 1972
Stegosaurus (intermediate maquette) (1972)
Stegosaurus (intermediate maquette), 1972
Stegosaurus (1972)
Stegosaurus, 1972
Obus (1972)
Obus, 1972
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.