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Bayonets Menacing a Flower, 1945

Work

Bayonets Menacing a Flower

Date 1945
Media
Sheet metal, wire, and paint
Dimensions
45" × 58 1⁄4" × 19"
Collection
Mildred Lane Kemper Museum of Art, St. Louis; University Purchase: McMillan Fund, 1946
Standing Mobile
Related exhibitions  2
Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery, London (1962)

Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery, London. Alexander Calder: Sculpture–Mobiles. 4 July–12 August 1962.

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
Archive
Works / Standing Mobile 269
The Water Lily (1945)
The Water Lily, 1945
Lily of Force (1945)
Lily of Force, 1945
Untitled (c. 1945)
Untitled, c. 1945
The General Sherman (c. 1945)
The General Sherman, c. 1945
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.