ALEXANDER CALDER, 1898–1976

Born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, Calder studied engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey.

He then moved to Paris in 1926, where he developed his passion for painting and sculpture. It was in Paris where Calder would meet his future influences and lifelong friends, such as Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp and James Johnson Sweeney.

Calder worked with many different media including painting and wire for three-dimensional works, but he is best known for his monumental sculptures.

Whether Calder expressed himself on paper, on canvas or with metal sculpture, the result would always be a playful composition celebrating the artist’s joie de vivre and a well- balanced homage to the fluidity of movement.