The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 27, 2024
White Loops and Red Spiral
1959
(American, 1898–1976)
Overall: 77.5 cm (30 1/2 in.)
Gift of The Halle Bros. Co. 1961.195.b
© Estate of Alexander Calder / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Location: 225 German Expressionism & Surrealism
Did You Know?
Highly prolific, Calder produced more than 16,000 works, an average of one a day for nearly 45 years.Description
Alexander Calder’s training as a mechanical engineer reinforced his lifelong interest in moving objects and inspired him to invent the mobile, a new type of sculpture that ranks among the most innovative discoveries in modern art. Calder's mobiles are often suspended from the ceiling, but here the mobile hangs on top of a black support structure. Both the spiral and irregular loops of the mobile are recurring forms in Calder's sculptural work.- "Recent Accessions in the American Field," Art in America 54 (May - June 1966). Reproduced p. 47.Calder, Alexander, Robert Müller, Reg Butler, and William D. Wixom. “Three Contemporary Sculptures.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 49, no. 3 (March 1962): 60–63. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 60-61, fig. 1 www.jstor.org
- CMA: Works from the Contemporary Collection, July 1-mid-October, 1969
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