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“Solomon Grundy…”, 1944

Work

"Solomon Grundy…"

Date 1944
Media
Ink on paper
Dimensions
11 1⁄4" × 10 1⁄4"
Collection
Galerie Lelong, Paris
Work on Paper
Chronology  1
Fall 1944

Curt Valentin publishes Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes, with eighty-five drawings by Calder and edited by Sweeney.

Archive
Works / Work on Paper 277
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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.