‘Tree’ Medium: Lithograph Year: 1972, Size: 580x820mm signature: stone signed uitgave: Maeght, Paris

American artist Alexander Calder was born in 1898 in Lawnton, Pennsylvania into a family of artists. He received an engineering degree in 1919 from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken and went on to attend the Art Students League in New York from 1923- 1926 where he studied briefly with Thomas Hart Benton and John Sloan. In 1925, he worked as a freelance artist for the National Police Gazette where he spent two weeks sketching at the circus. The following year, he went to Paris and attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In 1928 a show featuring his caricature portraits and wire animals took place at the Weyhe Gallery in New York. He met Frederick Kiesler, Theo van Doesburg and Fernand Léger and visited Piet Mondrian’s studio in 1930. Calder was the inventor of the mobile, which he first created as moving sculptures. He exhibited in 1933 with the Abstraction-Création group in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York gave him a solo exhibition four years later. During the late 1950s the artist worked extensively with gouache. The Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum in New York presented a Calder retrospective in 1964-1965. Although most well known for his mobiles, he also created numerous lithographs and gouaches and made designs for tapestries and rugs. Collections: AC Project Room, New York Allen Memorial Art Museum, Ohio Amon Carter Museum, TX Art Fund for U.K. Museums Atrium Gallery, St. Louis Baltimore Museum of Art Brenau University Galleries, Gainsville Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh Cleveland Museum of Art Corcoran Gallery of Art, DC Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis Galerie Aronowitsch, Stockholm Galerie Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris Galerie Karlheinz Meyer, Germany Guggenheim Museum High Museum of Art, Atlanta Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Horst Janssen Museum, Oldenberg, Germany Israel Museum, Jerusalem Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland Monica de Cardenas, Milan Museum of Fine Arts, Boston National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa National Gallery, Canberra Neuberger Museum, New York New Millennium Gallery, St Ives,Cornwall New York Public Library Newport Harbor Museum, Balboa, CA Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA Original Print Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice San Diego Museum of Art Scottish Arts Council Sculpture Center, New York Smithsonian Insititute Snug Harbor Cultural Center,Staten Is,NY Stephen Lacey Gallery, London, UK Tate Gallery, London, UK Tate St Ives, Cornwall, UK Victoria Miro Gallery, London Waddington Galleries, London, UK Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Wetterlling Gallery, Stockholm Whitney Museum of American Art, NY



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