Alexander CalderAmerican, 1898–1976A Universe
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The Museum of Modern Art
New York, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- 163.1934
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Meanwhile, in the life of Alexander Calder
The whole life1933
Back in America: a farmhouse in Roxbury
In 1933 Calder and Louisa return to America, to a farmhouse they have bought in Roxbury, Connecticut, where they will raise a family.
1934
MoMA buys its first Calder for $60
The Museum of Modern Art buys its first Calder for $60, after talking him down from $100; the museum has championed him since the early 1930s.
1935
His first solo museum exhibition in the United States
In 1935 Calder has his first solo museum exhibition in the United States, at The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago.
1935
The birth of his daughter Sandra
Calder and Louisa’s elder daughter Sandra (1935–2022), later an illustrator of children’s books, is born. Their second daughter, Mary, will be born in 1939.
1936
Barr’s exhibition “Cubism and Abstract Art”
Calder is one of three Americans included in Alfred H. Barr Jr.’s 1936 exhibition “Cubism and Abstract Art”; the Museum of Modern Art had championed him since the early 1930s.
1936
Small maquettes that grow into monuments
By 1936 Calder changes his working method: he makes a small maquette, the first step toward a monumental sculpture and one he considered a sculpture in its own right, and then enlarges it with a grid from a drawing on craft paper, as his father and grandfather had done.
