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Mobile with 14 Flags (maquette for Man-Eater with Pennants), 1945

Work

Mobile with 14 Flags (maquette for Man-Eater with Pennants)

Date 1945
Media
Sheet metal, rod, and paint
Dimensions
53” × approx. 50”
Collection
The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Gift of the Artist
Standing Mobile
Related works  1
Man-Eater with Pennants (1945)
Man-Eater with Pennants, 1945
Chronology  1
1 June 1945

Commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, to make a work for the sculpture garden, Calder creates Man-Eater with Pennants.

Archive
Works / Standing Mobile 269
Man-Eater with Pennants (1945)
Man-Eater with Pennants, 1945
Red T with Black Flags (1946)
Red T with Black Flags, 1946
Baby Flat Top (1946)
Baby Flat Top, 1946
Untitled (c. 1946)
Untitled, c. 1946
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.