{"data":{"id":"5542","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":5542,"topgoose_id":15156,"portfolio_id":5488,"tms_id":5542,"title":"Trapeze Artist","display_artist_text":"Alexander Calder","display_date":"1926–1931","accession_number":"83.36.43","dimensions":"Overall: 7 7/8 × 3 1/4 × 5 1/2 in. (20 × 8.3 × 14 cm)","medium":"Wire, cork, paint, leather, and lead","department":"collection","classification":"Sculpture","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from a public fundraising campaign in May 1982. One half of 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 De Witt Wallace Fund, Incorporated; 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\u003eTrapeze Artist\u003c/em\u003e, 1926–1931. Wire, cork, paint, leather, and lead, overall: 7 7/8 × 3 1/4 × 5 1/2 in. (20 × 8.3 × 14 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from a public fundraising campaign in May 1982. One half of 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 De Witt Wallace Fund, Incorporated; 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. 83.36.43. © Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":null,"ai_alt_text":"A hanging wire sculpture with two yellow painted clay pieces suspended from a twisted metal frame.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T17:24:47.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-03-12T06:00:17.431-04:00","images":[{"id":97095,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/5542/83_36_43_vw1_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"215","type":"artist"}]}}}}