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The Water Lily, 1945

Work

The Water Lily

Date 1945
Media
Sheet metal, wire, and paint
Dimensions
53 7⁄8" × 7'9" × 67"
Collection
Philadelphia Museum of Art; Gift of Frances & Bayard Storey in memory of Anne d'Harnoncourt, 2013 (no. 2013-70-1a-3)
Standing Mobile
Related exhibitions  1
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2017)

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Calder: Hypermobility. 9 June–23 October 2017.

Solo Exhibition
Archive
Works / Standing Mobile 266
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Untitled, c. 1945
The General Sherman (c. 1945)
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Untitled (c. 1945)
Untitled, 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.