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Baby Carriage, c. 1940

Work

Baby Carriage

Date c. 1940
Media
Tin can and wire
Dimensions
2 3⁄4" × 4 1⁄4" × 2 1⁄8"
Collection
Calder Foundation, New York; Mary Calder Rower Bequest, 2011
Toy
Archive
Works / Toy 13
Birds (c. 1940)
Birds, c. 1940
Car (c. 1943)
Car, c. 1943
Dollhouse (c. 1945)
Dollhouse, c. 1945
Bird Pull-toy (1951)
Bird Pull-toy, 1951
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.