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Little Blue Under Red, 1947

Work

Little Blue Under Red

Date 1947
Media
Sheet metal, wire, and paint
Dimensions
58" × 82"
Collection
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum; Louise E. Bettens Fund
Standing Mobile
Historical Photos  2
Calder at MIT(1950)
Installation photograph, Calder, New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1950Photograph by Ezra Stoller © Esto
Installation photograph, Calder, New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1950
Photograph by Ezra Stoller
Calder at MIT(1950)
Installation photograph, Calder, New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1950
Installation photograph, Calder, New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1950
Related exhibitions  1
New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (1950)

New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Calder. 5 December 1950–14 January 1951.

Solo Exhibition
Archive
Works / Standing Mobile 266
Bougainvillier (1947)
Bougainvillier, 1947
Sword Plant (1947)
Sword Plant, 1947
Root (1947)
Root, 1947
Untitled (c. 1947)
Untitled, c. 1947
Related Timeline
1946–1952
1946–1952 International Distinction

Calder had a major show in 1946 at Galerie Louis Carré in Paris for which Jean-Paul Sartre wrote a seminal essay. He designed sets and costumes for a number of theatrical performances and designed a huge acoustic ceiling for the Aula Magna auditorium at Universidad Central de Venezuela. In 1952, Calder represented the United States at the Venice Biennale, winning the grand prize for sculpture.