- Biography
- 1976 Died: in New York, NY
- 1967 - 1968 Sculpture commissions for Expo '67 in Montreal and 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City
- 1957 - 1958 Received several commissions for large-scale public sculpture, including a mobile for JFK Airport commissioned by Port Authority of New York and a stabile for UNESCO Paris headquarters
- 1952 Awarded grand prize for sculpture, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
- 1949 Constructed largest mobile to date, hung over main stairwell of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- 1939 Commissioned to make mobile installed in main stairwell of Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- 1933 Moved back to the U.S. and buys house in Roxbury, CT
- 1931 Settled in Paris, France
- 1926 Attended Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, France
- 1925 Employed at Central Park Zoo and Bronx Zoo, New York, NY
- 1923 Moved to New York, NY and attended Art Students League
- 1923 Worked as illustrator for newspapers and advertisers
- 1919 Graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ
- 1919 Worked as engineer at logging camp in Washington state
- 1909 Parents provide him with a workshop at age eleven
- 1898 Born: in Philadelphia, PA
- Literature
- 2005 Rosenthal, Mark, and Alexander S. C. Rower. The Surreal Calder. Houston, TX: The Menil Collection, 2005
- 1998 Guerrero, Pedro E. Calder at Home. The Joyous Environment of Alexander Calder. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1998
- 1998 Prather, Marla. Alexander Calder 1898 - 1976. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1998
- 1966 Calder, Alexander. An Autobiography With Pictures. New York: Pantheon Books, 1966
- Selected Exhibitions
- 2008 Alexander Calder: Gouaches, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York City, NY (solo)
- 2008 Alexander Calder Jewlery, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL (solo)
- 2007 Focus: Alexander Calder, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY (solo)
- 2006 The Surreal Calder, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , San Francisco, CA; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
- 2006 Calder in Brazil, Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (solo)
- 2006 I Think Best in Wire: Alexander Calder, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
- 2006 Calder Gouaches: 1942-1976, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
- 2006 Calder: From Model to Monument, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
- 2005 Alexander Calder: Two Monumental Sculptures, Gagosian Gallery, New York., NY (solo)
- 2005 Alexander Calder, Samuel Vanhoegaerden Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium (solo)
- 2004 Alexander Calder, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (solo)
- 2004 Calder: Gravedad y la Gracia, Museo Nacional - Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (solo)
- 2003 Calder: Gravedad y la Gracia, Fundacion del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain (solo)
- 2003 Alexander Calder, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA (solo)
- 2002 Calder '76: The Cutouts, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
- 2002 Alexander Calder: Motion and Color, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan (solo)
- 2002 Calder: Four Maquettes, Two Stabiles and a Little Bird Too, Ameringer Fine Arts, New York, NY (solo)
- 2001 Alexander Calder: Motion and Color, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan (solo)
- 2001 Alexander Calder in Focus, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (solo)
- 2000 Earthly Forms: The Biomorphic Sculpture of Arp, Calder and Noguchi, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY
- 1999 An Adventurous Spirit: Calder at The Phillips Collection, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C (solo)
- 1999 Alexander Calder, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
- 1998 Alexander Calder: 1898-1976, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and SF MoMA (solo)
- 1998 Flying Colors: The Innovation and Artistry of Alexander Calder, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose , CA (solo)
- 1996 Alexander Calder: 1898-1976, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (solo)
- 1996 Celebrating Calder, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (solo)
- 1994 Calder, Bibliotheque Municipale and Abbaye Saint-Germain, Auxerre, France (solo)
- 1994 Calder Gallery Installation, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (solo)
- 1993 Alexander Calder from the Collection of the Ruth and Leonard J. Horwich Family, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (solo)
- 1992 Celebrating Calder, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
- 1992 Alexander Calder, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (solo)
- 1989 - 1990 The Intimate World of Alexander Calder, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York, NY; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
- 1987 - 1988 Alexander Calder: Sculptures of the Nineteen Thirties, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
- 1984 Calder, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela (solo)
- 1982 Tapices de Alexander Calder, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
- 1981 Alexander Calder: A Concentration of Works from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
- 1978 Images de Calder, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (solo)
- 1978 Calder's Universe, San Jose Museum of Art, CA; Portland Art Museum, OR; Phoenix Art Museum, AZ (solo)
- 1977 Alexander Calder Memorial, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY (solo)
- 1977 Calder's Universe, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; High Art Musuem, Atlanta, GA (solo)
- 1976 Calder, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
- 1976 Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
- 1963 - 1964 Calder gouache show, Perls Gallery, New York (solo)
- 1963 - 1964 Retrospective, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (solo)
- 1962 Retrospective, Tate Gallery, London, UK
- 1950 Galerie Maeght, Paris, France (solo)
- 1950 Retrospective, Masachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (solo)
- 1943 Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
- 1943 Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA (solo)
- 1932 Julien Levy Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
- 1929 Galerie Billiet, Paris, France (solo)
- 1928 Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
- 1926 Artist's Gallery, New York, NY
- Des Stabiles et des Mobiles de Calder, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (solo)