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New Mobilization Button, 1969

Work

New Mobilization Button

Date 1969
Media
Political button
Dimensions
1 3⁄4" diam.
Publisher
Produced by the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, which is referenced on the edge of the button.
Edition size
Unlimited edition
Unusual Project
Chronology  1
Before 15 November 1969

Calder designs a button for the mass protest against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam.

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1963–1976
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.