Artwork Details
Alexander Calder
American,
1898–1976
Red Rudder in the Air
1975
Medium
Painted sheet metal and steel wire
Dimensions
31 x 68 inches
Location
Level 3, Gallery 7
Accession Number
1976.4.1
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Isaac S. Keeler and Mr. and Mrs. Miner S. Keeler
Image Copyright
© Alexander Calder
About the Artwork
Alexander Calder was born in Philadelphia in 1898, the son of a father who was a sculptor and mother who was a painter. From 1923 – 1926 he studied art at the Art Students League, New York and began making wire sculptures that were essentially line drawings in space. In 1926, he traveled to Paris and met Marcel Duchamp who named Calder’s moving suspended sculptures “mobiles.” Calder continued to make mobiles, the art form he had invented, for the remainder of his life.