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Little Face, 1941

Work

Little Face

Date 1941
Media
Wire, thread, glass, and wood
Dimensions
13 1⁄2" × 10 1⁄2" × 6"
Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Gift of The Leonard and Ruth Horwich Family Foundation (no. 2019.12)
Standing Mobile
Archive
Works / Standing Mobile 266
Untitled (1941)
Untitled, 1941
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Calderoulette, c. 1941
Black Spot on Gimbals (1942)
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Untitled (c. 1942)
Untitled, c. 1942
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.