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	Alexander Calder - Biography
		Alexander Calder, internationally famous by his mid-30s, is renowned for developing a new idiom in modern art-the mobile.
		Calder was born in 1898 in Philadelphia, the son of Alexander Stirling Calder and grandson of Alexander Milne Calder, both well-known sculptors.
		Calder created a miniature circus in his studio; the animals, clowns and tumblers were made of wire and animated by hand.
	www.rogallery.com /calder_alexander/calder-biography.htm (446 words)

	ALEXANDER CALDER
		Alexander Calder, however, studied mechanical engineering from 1915 to 1919 at the Stevens Institute of technology at Hoboken, New jersey, and began to take an interest in landscape painting only in 1922 after having tried his hand at a variety of jobs.
		Calder and his fellow students soon proved to be good draughtsmen and made a game of rapidly sketching people in the streets and the underground.
		Calder was a master when it came to reach perfect balance with his mobiles and to express movement though he claimed to produce them simply by testing the balancing effect of his wired elements on his finger.
	www.artcult.com /calder.htm (826 words)

	Alexander Calder
		"Alexander Calder: 1898-1976" was organized by Marla Prather, the gallery's curator of Twentieth Century art, in collaboration with Calder's grandson, Alexander S.C. Rower, director of The Alexander and Louisa Calder Foundation and editor of the Calder catalogue raisonne.
		Alexander Calder was the third generation sculptor in his family.
		Calder's father, A. Stirling Calder (1870-1945), was well known for graceful fountain and garden figures and commemorative statues, which ranged from Beaux Arts to Modernist in style.
	www.antiquesandthearts.com /archive/calder.htm (2517 words)

	Sculpture.org
		When Alexander Calder burst upon the art scene in the early 1930s, he was the first American artist of his generation to be an international sensation.
		Calder was descended from a family of sculptors and painters, but at the age of 17, he decided to study engineering.
		Calder is considered by sculptors and critics alike to be one of the true inventors of the 20th century.
	www.sculpture.org /documents/scmag98/calder/sm-caldr.shtml (2547 words)

	Antiques and the Arts Online
		It will be spectacular to see the full achievement of the youngest Alexander Calder exhibited in the city of his birth and in the context of the sculpture of his father and grandfather.
		Alexander Calder was the third generation of the accomplished artistic family from Philadelphia.
		Calder was born in Lawnton, Penn., in 1898.
	www.antiquesandthearts.com /a2000.asp?a=TradeTalk05-21-2002-12-22-53 (865 words)

	Alexander Calder \| Untitled \| Hollis Taggart Galleries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Calder was born in a suburb of Philadelphia to a family of artists.
		Calder’s use of irregular, biomorphic forms that recall the work of Miró reflected the influence of Surrealism and Dada, but it was the art and concepts of Mondrian that would have the most decisive impact on Calder’s work.
		Calder was impressed by Mondrian’s reduction of visual imagery to a vocabulary of flat planes of primary colors.
	www.hollistaggart.com /artists/calder_dg9251.htm (784 words)

	Alexander Calder: Childhood Sculpture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Born in Lawton, Pennsylvania in 1898, Alexander Calder was the son of two artists -- his father a sculptor, his mother a painter.
		At age eight, Calder was given his first set of tools, and though his family traveled a great deal during his youth, he always seemed to have a workshop in the family home.
		When his father, Stirling Calder, was appointed acting chief of sculpture for the Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1912, the family moved to San Francisco.
	www.sfmoma.org /espace/calder/calder_childhood.html (200 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Calder, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Calder, Alexander CALDER, ALEXANDER [Calder, Alexander], 1898-1976, American sculptor, b.
		The form was pioneered by Alexander Calder, and examples were termed stabiles to distinguish them from mobiles, their moving counterparts, also invented by Calder.
		The form was pioneered by Marcel Duchamp, Naum Gabo, and Alexander Calder.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Calder, (592 words)

	Calder, Alexander - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		CALDER, ALEXANDER [Calder, Alexander], 1898-1976, American sculptor, b.
		Philadelphia; son of a prominent sculptor, Alexander Stirling Calder.
		Calder is also noted for his book illustrations and stage sets.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-calder-a.html (404 words)

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		Alexander Calder, a sculptor and painter, was born in Lawton, Pennsylvania in 1898.
		Calder is most famous for his mobiles and large stabiles, although he also created paintings in gouache.
		Calder’s characteristic materials are metal and wire but he has worked with wood, porcelain, and glass as well.
	www.ettc.net /njarts/details.cfm?ID=407 (432 words)

	Alexander Calder - AMAM
		Calder began to fabricate mobiles in the 1930s, after a 1930 visit to Piet Mondrian's studio and a subsequent change from representational to abstract art.
		During the 1930s Calder used wood and found objects in his mobiles and stabiles, but soon shapes made by the artist began to dominate.
		By 1960 Calder was no longer fabricating mobiles by hand, and he was receiving many commissions for public works both in the United States and abroad.
	www.oberlin.edu /allenart/collection/calder_alexander.html (853 words)

	artnet.com Magazine Features -- Calder Country
		Alexander Milne Calder's 37-foot-tall bronze statue of William Penn atop City Hall Tower in Philadelphia.
		When Alexander I modeled the William Penn that stands atop the dome of this French-inspired edifice, it was the largest statue ever cast in bronze in the United States.
		Because the nature of sculpture changed radically during the years Alexander II was active as an artist, his work is less well known than the statues by his father and the stabiles by his son.
	www.artnet.com /Magazine/features/tuchman/tuchman8-28-02.asp (976 words)

	Alexander Calder
		Stirling and Nanette moved to Arizona, leaving the children in the care of friends.
		The Calders reunited a year later and settled in Pasadena, California in the fall of 1906.
		By the spring of 1923, the inspirational mountain vistas of Washington (and perhaps genetics) prompted Calder to quit the logging camp and concentrate on painting.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/american_artists/81069 (484 words)

	NPR's All Things Considered: Calder Sculpture
		July 22, 1898: Calder is born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, to Nanette Lederer Calder, a painter, and Alexander Stirling Calder, a sculptor.
		Calder fashioned each piece to work in harmony with the setting -- usually in cities, where buildings and streets provided the context.
		Calder, who died in 1976, was eccentric even by artistic standards.
	www.npr.org /programs/atc/features/2001/aug/calder/010813.calder.html (545 words)

	Alexander Calder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander Calder (July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976), also known as Sandy Calder, was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing the mobile.
		Born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, Calder came from a family of sculptors, with both his father Alexander Stirling Calder and grandfather, sculptor Alexander Milne Calder, a Scot, sharing the same name.
		Calder was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the 3rd Sculpture International held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the summer of 1949.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Calder (1978 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alexandre Calder, a trained engineer, would do well in various hand-crafted endeavors, from his iron wire sculptures to the re-production of a miniature circus, without forgetting the invention of the model and the larger than life âstabileâ.
		Calderâs works are highly sought after additions to any collection: mainly since they remain accessible and curiously ethereal, lending them a mysterious and poetic quality.
		Alexandre Calder and his mobiles are an integral part of the history of the Art market as we know it.
	www.operagallery.com /artist.aspx?id=472 (336 words)

	Philadelphia Museum of Art - Information : Press Room : Press Releases : 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It brings Calder’s celebrated works to Philadelphia, placing these works in dramatic context with the achievements of his father, Alexander Stirling Calder (1870–1945) who designed the Swann Memorial Fountain (1924) at Logan Circle and his grandfather, Alexander Milne Calder (1846-1923) who designed the figure of William Penn that stands atop City Hall’s clock tower (1886-1894).
		Alexander Stirling Calder, who was born in Philadelphia was especially noted for the Swann Memorial Fountain but also created many other sculptures throughout the city and on the Parkway.
		Alexander Calder was born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, in 1898.
	www.philamuseum.org /press/releases/2002/306.html (1323 words)

	Press Release - Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
		Alexander Calder is one of the 20th century's most inventive and influential artists, and his mobiles (hanging sculptures) and monumental stabiles (freestanding sculptures) are among the most beloved and iconic works of American art.
		Calder was an engineer by training, and his large stabiles epitomize his technical mastery of industrial materials; but they also demonstrate his joyful imagination and sense of harmony and balance.
		Calder's many permanent public sculptures - in Chicago, Paris, Mexico City, Montreal, Jerusalem, and other cities all over the world - are some of the most beloved and important works of the 20th century.
	www.nyc.gov /html/om/html/2006a/pr124-06.html (1295 words)

	Pew Charitable Trusts Teams with Art Museum to Initiate Outdoor Display of Calder Sculptures - Philadelphia Museum of ...
		It will be spectacular to see the full achievement of Alexander Calder, one of the 20th century’s great artists, exhibited in the city of his birth and in the context of the sculpture of his father and grandfather.
		Alexander Sandy Calder (1898-1976) was the third generation of an accomplished artistic family from Philadelphia whose work can already be seen in dramatic succession along the Parkway.
		His father, Alexander Stirling Calder (1870-1945), who was born in Philadelphia, created the Swann Memorial Fountain (1924) at Logan Circle, and many other sculptures throughout the city.
	www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2001/07/04/28806.html (1071 words)

	Alexander Calder: A Chronology
		1898 Alexander Calder is born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, on July 22, the son of painter Nanette Lederer Calder and sculptor Alexander Stirling Calder.
		Calder Mobiles, at the George Walter Vincent Smith Gallery in Springfield, Massachusetts.
		Alexander Calder: Sculptures and Constructions, is presented by The Museum of Modern Art.
	www.stormking.org /calder_chronology.htm (961 words)

	Fairmount Park
		Calder's playfulness is evident in the bronze turtles and frogs that shoot water from the basin.
		At one end of the Parkway is City Hall, for which Stirling Calder's father, Alexander Milne Calder, designed hundreds of sculptures, including the giant statue of William Penn on the tower.
		On the square's northern lawn, in front of the Free Library, stands Stirling Calder's Shakespeare Memorial, a marvelous sculpture portrait of a morose Hamlet and Touchstone the fool, together representing Tragedy and Comedy.
	www.fairmountpark.org /logansquare.asp (813 words)

	The Berkshire Museum
		Now is your chance to play with Alexander Calder: make the seal bounce a ball on its nose; see the duck waddle across the room; and watch as mesmerizing spirals go round and round.
		The world knows Alexander Calder as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, but in 1927, he was best known as the son of the famous sculptor, Alexander Stirling Calder, a well-known public sculptor who was commissioned to sculpt the woodwork and the fountain surround in the Museum's Ellen Crane Memorial Sculpture Gallery.
		In the 1930's the Berkshire Museum gave the young Calder his first public commission, a pair of mobiles designed for the Museum's new theater.
	www.berkshiremuseum.org /galleries/calder.html (314 words)

	Alexander Stirling Calder sculptors and architects information (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alexander Stirling CalderImage:SwannFountainASC.jpgrightthumb350pxSwann Memorial Fountain, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ==Biography== '''Alexander Stirling Calder''' (January 11 1870 and#8211; 1945) is an American sculptor, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		Calder first worked as a sculptor assisting his father in producing the extensive sculpture program on the Philadelphia City Hall and in 1886 is reported to have modeled the arm of on of the figures.
		Throughout out his career Calder was frequently a teacher, variously teaching sculpture or anatomy at the Philadelphia Academy of the fine Arts, the School of Industrial Art, in Phladelphia, the National Academy of Design in NYC and the Students Art League, also in NYC.
	www.artbrain.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /sculptors-architects/alexander-stirling-calder.htm (297 words)

	Alexander Stirling Calder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander Stirling Calder (January 11, 1870 – 1945) was an American sculptor, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		Calder was the son of sculptor Alexander Milne Calder and the father of sculptor Alexander Calder.
		Calder obtained a studio in NYC and there employed the services of model Audrey Munson who posed for Calder and a host of other artists.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Stirling_Calder (552 words)

	Daily Celebrations ~ Alexander Calder, Conjure It Up In Space ~ July 22 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire
		With imagination and a lifelong passion for the circus, Calder created motion and form with his art.
		Calder celebrated spirit and color, calling his pieces "poetry that dances with the joy of life." Whether creating a clown or high wire performer, the innovative genius translated his fascination for life's movement into unforgettable art.
		Calder created major public sculptures for the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, Lincoln Center, and Kennedy International Airport.
	www.dailycelebrations.com /072202.htm (240 words)

	Plans nixed for Calder museum in Philadelphia (phillyBurbs.com) \| Pennsylvania News
		The Calder Foundation does not have complete authority over the artist's estate and organizers were unable to secure acceptable agreements with all six of Calder's heirs, who control the major pieces that would have been the foundation of the museum, to loan some works for up to 99 years.
		Diane Dalto, who was negotiating with the Calders for several years and overseeing the proposed museum's startup, has previously said that some family members were emotionally torn by the idea of parting with the art.
		His father, Alexander Stirling Calder, created the city's landmark Swann Memorial Fountain, while his grandfather, Alexander Milne Calder, created the iconic statue of William Penn atop City Hall that for generations was Philadelphia's tallest building.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/103-09132005-540860.html (567 words)

	The Vincent van Gogh Gallery
		He was the son of Alexander Stirling Calder and the grandson of Alexander Milne Calder, both well-known sculptors.
		Alexander Calder made ingenious, witty use of natural and man-made materials including wire, sheet metal, wood and bronze to create his "mobiles," a name first used by Marcel Duchamp to describe this new idiom in modern art.
		Calder created mobiles (suspended, moving structures), standing mobiles (anchored, moving sculptures), and stabiles (stationary constructions).
	www.vangoghgallery.com /artistbios/Alexander_Calder.html (262 words)

	Free Term Papers on Alexander Calder
		Alexander Calder was born in Lawnton, a suburb of Philadelphia, on the date of July 22 1898.
		He was named Alexander after his father, Alexander Stirling Calder, and his grandfather Alexander Miline Calder.
		Alexander Stirling Calder was also a great sculptor.
	www.freefortermpapers.com /show_essay/144.html (198 words)

	Alexander Calder
		Alexander Calder Ro Gallery-- prints and biography (there are many art prints resources on the WWW)
		Smithsonian interview with Calder Find out what Calder had to say about Calder.
		Alexander Calder San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
	www.princetonol.com /groups/iad/lessons/middle/calder.htm (869 words)

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