Calder Jewelry

Calder, Alexander

Calder Foundation

Alexander Calder, the renowned sculptor and inventor of mobiles, here brings his characteristic simplicity of line and spirit of movement to the art of animal sketching. The purpose of the book is to help the student to draw animals as he or she sees them. Noting and practicing the way Mr. Calder captures the emotions and attitudes of animals in a few quick lines, the student can quickly obtain a lasting groundwork in animal sketching that will before long become second nature. These full-body sketches and enlarged details, in rapid, expressive brush-and-ink, of animals from the farm, the zoo, wildlife, and the home, in characteristic poses and movements, reveal both the action and portrait aspects of the art. There are 12 sketches of horses in action (drawing wagon or plough, racing, etc.); 10 drawings of cats, luxuriously asleep or alertly watchful, stretching or crouching; 14 drawings of dogs (many different breeds) in a variety of poses ― lying down, sleeping, sitting, running, sniffing the air, feeding puppies; 11 drawings of lions and other big cats, pacing, lying down, or crouching; 7 sketches of monkeys, jumping and gesticulating; 23 drawings of deer, stooping, sitting, running, etc.; 27 drawings of birds of many different species ― owls sitting, ducks waddling, etc.; and 18 sketches of cows grazing, sitting, swishing tails, and feeding calves. Also included are drawings of seals, elephants, squirrels, kangaroos, and a bear. Because of the simplicity of Mr. Calder's approach to sketching, this book can easily be used by even the youngest of students. There are no difficult techniques to master here, no roundabout methods of construction, but just an insistence on drawing things as the student sees them, with undogmatic (and delightful) assistance from an undisputed master of the simple expressive line. It is unlikely that there is any more pleasant way to study such a fundamental branch of pictorial art. Unabridged and unaltered republication of third (1929) edition.

Animal Sketching (Dover Art Instruction)

Arts & Photography

Drawing

Dover Publications

Calder's Circus

Dust jacket notes: "Alexander Calder, creator of the mobile and the stabile, occupies a unique position as the sculptor generally considered America's greatest, and the American artist with the widest international reputation today. His fame, and his career as a sculptor, began almost fifty years ago with his miniature Circus. The Circus, now on extended loan to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, was begun in the mid-twenties with just a few figures. Calder enlarged the Circus over half a dozen years into a full performance with a troupe of dozens of people and animals. He was invited in the twenties, thirties, forties, and fifties to give shows for special audiences in America and abroad, and the Circus brought him into early contact with the leaders of the Paris art world - Mondrian, Miro, Cocteau, Kiesler, Man Ray, Pascin, Leger, Foujita, pevsner, Arp - many of whom inspired aspects of his style. It is most significant, however, as a laboratory in which all the most original features of his later work developed. The toys, wire, wood and bronze sculpture, jewelry, drawings, gouaches, and even the great mobiles and stabiles and the recent 'animobiles. evolved from the miniature Circus. Calder's constant partiality for animal sculpture and his use of specific circus subjects and titles are significant, but less so than the fact that the basic qualities of his major works have developed as abstractions of his early Circus troupe. This is especially evident in the mobiles, with their precision engineering, their tightrope tension and balance, and their lively acrobatic motion. The circus aesthetic - a combination of suspense, surprise, spontaneity, humor, gaiety, palyfulness - has always been the basis of Calder's work. The occasional quotations that accompany the illustrations - Calder's remarks about circus things - are the only 'text' in the book...."

Jean Lipman

Marvin Schwartz

Nancy Foote

Ellen Hsiao

Sculpture

E. P. Dutton & Co; Whitney Museum of American Art

An anthology, first published as a limited edition in 1955, featuring more than fifty line drawings by the sculptor, accompanied by literary excerpts on animals of every type

A Bestiary

Study & Teaching

Pantheon

A well-known artist's sketches of animals are accompained by brief text explaining how to capture some of the elusive qualities of wildlife.

Animal sketching

Sterling Pub. Co.

The mobile and stable sculpture of Alexander Calder as well as his painting and jewelry are depicted with a brief biographical sketch and critical appraisal

Calder (English and French Edition)

History & Criticism

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Introduces the life and work of the artist famous for his mobiles

Calder (Great Modern Masters)

Lemaire, GÉrard-Georges

Hawkes, Sophie

Individual Artists

Harry N. Abrams / Cameo

The striking mobile sculptures of Alexander Calder are among the most notable and original creations of twentieth-century art. Combining for the first time movement and sculpture, these works represent a new and highly influential departure from the practices of the past. Yet Calder's work ranges much more widely. This lavishly illustrated book reflects the full diversity of Calder's oeuvre and explores an outstanding selection of more than two hundred of his works.Based on access to family archives, an overview of Calder's entire career, and contributions from the artist's grandson Alexander S. C. Rower, this book for the first time presents the artist in a serious light and proper historical context.Without ignoring the playful and whimsical dimension of his work, the book emphasizes Calder's role as one of the great formal innovators of the century. Each work of art selected from those produced during his prolific career is reproduced here in color and is accompanied by compar

Alexander Calder, 1898-1976

Prather, Marla

Rower, A. S. C.

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Natl Gallery of Art

Klaus Gunther Perls (1912-2008) was born in Berlin, Germany, where his parents were art dealers. He studied art history in Munich, but after the Nazis came to power moved to Basel, Switzerland and completed his studies. In 1935, Klaus moved to New York and opened the Perls Galleries on East 58th Street near Madison Avenue in New York. Initially, he dealt in works by Maurice Utrillo, Maurice de Vlaminck and Raoul Dufy; After the war, the Perls focused on French art from the School of Paris. They moved their gallery to a town house at 1016 Madison Avenue, near 78th Street, where they lived on the upper floors in 1954. They worked there until 1997. Perls was one of the founders, with Perls, of the Art Dealers Association of America. Perls and Calder were close friends for decades and they had an extensive private collection of Calders.

Alexander Calder: The Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Klaus G. Perls

Calder: Four maquettes, two stabiles & a little bird too : 19 September - 12 October 2002, Ameringer Yohe Fine Art

Ameringer Yohe Fine Art

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