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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1991.377
People
Alexander Calder, American (Philadelphia, PA 1898 - 1976 New York, NY)
Title
Study for a Standing Mobile
Other Titles
Former Title: Study for a Stabile
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1934
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310152

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
52.7 × 44 cm (20 3/4 × 17 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Alexander Calder, Created, By descent through family to Nanette Sexton.
Richard B. Bailey and Nanette C. Sexton, Boston MA, By descent through family, Gift to Harvard University Art Museums, 1991. Ms. Sexton is great-niece of the artist.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Richard B. Bailey and Nanette C. Sexton in memory of Professor Frederick Deknatel
Copyright
© Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1991
Object Number
1991.377
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Work is composed of three separate sheets attached by five straight pins.

Publication History

  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. pl. 53 on p. 122

Exhibition History

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