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Shoofly Elephant, 1928

Work

Shoofly Elephant

Date 1928
Media
Pencil, ink, and gouache on paper
Dimensions
4 1⁄2" × 8"
Collection
Calder Foundation, New York; Mary Calder Rower Bequest, 2011
Work on Paper
Related exhibitions  1
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2009)

Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Alexander Calder: les années parisiennes 1926–1933. 18 March–20 July 2009. Originated from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Solo Exhibition
Archive
Works / Work on Paper 277
Rocking Zebra (1928)
Rocking Zebra, 1928
Untitled (Preliminary drawing for The Arrival of the Bremen or The Spirit of St. Louis) (c. 1928)
Untitled (Preliminary drawing for The Arrival of the Bremen or The Spirit of St. Louis), c. 1928
Cartoon for a textile (c. 1929)
Cartoon for a textile, c. 1929
Cartoon for a magazine cover (c. 1929)
Cartoon for a magazine cover, c. 1929
Related Timeline
1926–1930
1926–1930 Wire Sculpture and the Circus

Soon after moving to Paris in 1926, Calder created his Cirque Calder. Made of wire and a spectrum of found materials, the Cirque was a work of performance art that gained Calder an introduction to the Parisian avant-garde. He continued to explore his invention of wire sculpture, whereby he “drew” with wire in three dimensions the portraits of friends, animals, circus themes, and personalities of the day.