{"data":{"id":"5513","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":5513,"topgoose_id":15120,"portfolio_id":5488,"tms_id":5513,"title":"Fanni, the Belly Dancer","display_artist_text":"Alexander Calder","display_date":"1926–1931","accession_number":"83.36.22.1a-c","dimensions":"Overall (variable): 13 3/8 × 6 × 8 1/2 in. (34 × 15.2 × 21.6 cm)","medium":"Galvanized steel wire, fabric, rhinestones, thread","department":"collection","classification":"Sculpture","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from a public fundraising campaign in May 1982. One half the funds were contributed by the Robert Wood Johnson Jr. Charitable Trust. Additional major donations were given by The Lauder Foundation; the Robert Lehman Foundation, Inc.; the Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation, Inc.; an anonymous donor; The T. M. Evans Foundation, Inc.; MacAndrews \u0026 Forbes Group, Incorporated; the DeWitt Wallace Fund, Inc.; Martin and Agneta Gruss; Anne Phillips; Mr. and Mrs. Laurance S. Rockefeller; the Simon Foundation, Inc.; Marylou Whitney; Bankers Trust Company; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth N. Dayton; Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz; Irvin and Kenneth Feld; Flora Whitney Miller. More than 500 individuals from 26 states and abroad also contributed to the campaign.","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":5488,"portfolio":"Calder's Circus","edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlexander Calder, \u003cem\u003eFanni, the Belly Dancer\u003c/em\u003e, 1926–1931. Galvanized steel wire, fabric, rhinestones, thread, overall (variable): 13 3/8 × 6 × 8 1/2 in. (34 × 15.2 × 21.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from a public fundraising campaign in May 1982. One half the funds were contributed by the Robert Wood Johnson Jr. Charitable Trust. Additional major donations were given by The Lauder Foundation; the Robert Lehman Foundation, Inc.; the Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation, Inc.; an anonymous donor; The T. M. Evans Foundation, Inc.; MacAndrews \u0026 Forbes Group, Incorporated; the DeWitt Wallace Fund, Inc.; Martin and Agneta Gruss; Anne Phillips; Mr. and Mrs. Laurance S. Rockefeller; the Simon Foundation, Inc.; Marylou Whitney; Bankers Trust Company; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth N. Dayton; Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz; Irvin and Kenneth Feld; Flora Whitney Miller. More than 500 individuals from 26 states and abroad also contributed to the campaign. 83.36.22.1a-c. © Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFanni, the Belly Dancer\u003c/i\u003e is one of the “performers” in \u003ci\u003eCalder’s\u003c/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCircus. \u003c/i\u003eMovement is an essential element of the work, as exemplified by \u003ci\u003eFanni’s\u003c/i\u003e especially lifelike ability to shift her weight, swivel her hips and undulate her sewn and stuffed cloth stomach. Calder wrote that he made her “with a kind of screw that pierced her body lengthways,” and rotated her with a gear system that he devised from an egg-beater attached to a wire crank.\u003ci\u003e \u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"A small vintage cloth dancer with arms raised stands on a red fringed box.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T17:24:36.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-03-12T06:00:12.156-04:00","images":[{"id":97069,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/5513/83_36_22_1a-c_vw1_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"215","type":"artist"}]}}}}