Calder Foundation

Untitled (maquette)

Date 1976
Media
Sheet metal, wire, and paint
Dimensions
35 1⁄2" × 23 1⁄2"
Collection
The Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Related exhibitions  1
Centro Botín, Santander, Spain (2019)

Centro Botín, Santander, Spain. Calder Stories. 29 June–3 November 2019.

Solo Exhibition
Chronology  2
Before 28 May 1976

The Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, commissions Calder to design a monumental scupture for their garden.

29 June 1976

Calder and Louisa travel to Otterlo for the Kröller-Müller museum commission. The project for which Calder creates a maquette, is never executed.

Works / Standing Mobile 270
Related Timeline
1963–1976 Monumental Works

In 1963, Calder completed construction of a large studio overlooking the Indre Valley. With the assistance of a full-scale, industrial ironworks, he began to fabricate his monumental works in France and devoted much of his later working years to public commissions. Calder died in New York in 1976 at the age of seventy-eight.