1991.377: Study for a Standing Mobile

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

Permissions

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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

• A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1940 to 2000, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/03/2000 - 08/27/2000
• American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023

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