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Installation view of Alexander Calder: Modern from the Start, The Museum
of Modern Art, New York, March 14, 2021 – January 15, 2022 © 2021 The
Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Denis Doorly

Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Calder’s sculptures
were a mainstay of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Sculpture Garden, where they have continued to
reappear in the intervening decades. Ten years before
his death, in 1966, Calder made an impressive gift
of 19 artworks to MoMA in order to round out the
institution’s holdings.

Aligned with the Museum’s commitment to exploring
all facets of its collection, Modern from the Start will
take a deep dive into the work of Calder and provide a
timely opportunity to revisit his legacy.

Following a loose chronology, the exhibition will
present examples from the full scope of Calder’s work,
Publicity photograph of Calder during the installation of “Alexander
from the earliest wire sculptures of the 1920s through Calder” (September 29, 1943–January 16, 1944). 1943. Gelatin silver print,
the largescale mono- and polychrome stabiles and 3 3/4 x 4 3/4″ (9.5 x 12 cm). Photographic Archive, The Museum of Modern
Art Archives, New York. © 2021 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists
standing mobiles of his later years.
Rights Society (ARS), New York
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