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Untitled, c. 1939

Work

Untitled

Date c. 1939
Media
Sheet metal
Dimensions
19 1⁄4" × 12" × 10 1⁄4"
Collection
Calder Foundation, New York
Stabile
Related exhibitions  1
Pace Gallery, Los Angeles (2023)

Pace Gallery, Los Angeles. Calder/Tuttle:Tentative. 21 January–25 February 2023.

Solo Exhibition
Archive
Works / Stabile 251
Spiny (maquette) (1939)
Spiny (maquette), 1939
Little Arch (maquette) (c. 1939)
Little Arch (maquette), c. 1939
Black Beast (maquette) (1939)
Black Beast (maquette), 1939
Untitled (maquette) (1939)
Untitled (maquette), 1939
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.