Calder Foundation
Site Search
Site Search

Untitled, 1935

Work

Untitled

Date 1935
Media
Wood and wire
Dimensions
15 7⁄8" × 11 1⁄4" × 4 1⁄2"
Collection
Calder Foundation, New York
Stabile
Historical Photos  3
Tightrope (1936)
Untitled (1935), Tightrope, and Untitled (maquette), New York City storefront studio, 1936Photograph by Herbert Matter © Calder Foundation, New York
Untitled (1935), Tightrope, and Untitled (maquette), New York City storefront studio, 1936
Photograph by Herbert Matter
Inventory drawing for Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles (1937)
Inventory drawing of 27 objects considered for inclusion in Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Inventory drawing of 27 objects considered for inclusion in Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Verso of double-sided installation drawing of 33 objects in Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles (1937)
Verso of double-sided installation drawing of 33 objects in Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Verso of double-sided installation drawing of 33 objects in Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
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
Hauser & Wirth, Somerset (2018)

Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, England. Calder: From the Stony River to the Sky. 26 May 2018–9 September 2018.

Solo Exhibition
Archive
Works / Stabile 251
Untitled (1935)
Untitled, 1935
Big Bird (maquette) (1936)
Big Bird (maquette), 1936
Untitled (1936)
Untitled, 1936
Ex-Octopus (maquette) (1936)
Ex-Octopus (maquette), 1936
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.”