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Giraffe, 1941

Work

Giraffe

Date 1941
Media
Sheet metal, wire, and paint
Dimensions
102" × 38" × 56"
Collection
Private Collection
Standing Mobile
Historical Photos  2
Calder with Giraffe (1941)
Calder with Giraffe, Roxbury, 1941Photograph by Herbert Matter © Calder Foundation, New York
Calder with Giraffe, Roxbury, 1941
Photograph by Herbert Matter
Roxbury studio (1941)
Mobile, Aluminum Leaves, Red Post, Un effet du japonais, Giraffe, and The Great Yucca, Roxbury studio, 1941Photograph by Herbert Matter © Calder Foundation, New York
Mobile, Aluminum Leaves, Red Post, Un effet du japonais, Giraffe, and The Great Yucca, Roxbury studio, 1941
Photograph by Herbert Matter
Archive
Works / Standing Mobile 266
Un effet du japonais (1941)
Un effet du japonais, 1941
Tree (1941)
Tree, 1941
Untitled (1941)
Untitled, 1941
Red Petals (maquette) (1941)
Red Petals (maquette), 1941
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.