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Yucca, 1941

Work

Yucca

Date 1941
Media
Sheet metal, wire, and paint
Dimensions
40 3⁄4" × 15" × 11"
Collection
Calder Foundation, New York
Standing Mobile
Historical Photos  3
Roxbury studio (1941)
Mobile, Aluminum Leaves, Red Post, Un effet du japonais, Giraffe, and The Great Yucca, Roxbury studio, 1941Photograph by Herbert Matter © Calder Foundation, New York
Mobile, Aluminum Leaves, Red Post, Un effet du japonais, Giraffe, and The Great Yucca, Roxbury studio, 1941
Photograph by Herbert Matter
Roxbury studio (1941)
Apple Monster (1938), Tadpole (maquette, c. 1936), Yucca (center rear), Black Beast (maquette, 1939), Myrtle Burl, and Yucca (right rear), Roxbury studio, 1941Photograph by Herbert Matter © Calder Foundation, New York
Apple Monster (1938), Tadpole (maquette, c. 1936), Yucca (center rear), Black Beast (maquette, 1939), Myrtle Burl, and Yucca (right rear), Roxbury studio, 1941
Photograph by Herbert Matter
Drawing of Yucca (1941) related to Calder: Recent Work (1942)
Drawing of Yucca (1941) related to Calder: Recent Work, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1942Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Drawing of Yucca (1941) related to Calder: Recent Work, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1942Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Related exhibitions  2
Hauser & Wirth, Zürich (2015)

Hauser & Wirth, Zürich. Transparence: Calder / Picabia. 14 June–25 July 2015.

Group Exhibition
Hauser & Wirth, Somerset (2018)

Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, England. Calder: From the Stony River to the Sky. 26 May 2018–9 September 2018.

Solo Exhibition
Archive
Works / Standing Mobile 266
The Great Yucca (1941)
The Great Yucca, 1941
Yucca (1941)
Yucca, 1941
The Clangor (1941)
The Clangor, 1941
Little Face (1941)
Little Face, 1941
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.