Alexander Calder

Recto: Painting

Verso: (Diagram)

1926–1931

A bright yellow human figure with arms raised floats above a pink landscape while a gray seated figure watches.
A bright yellow human figure with arms raised floats above a pink landscape while a gray seated figure watches.

Not on view

Date
1926–1931

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Tempera on folded paperboard with rope

Dimensions
Overall: 28 3/16 × 28 3/8 in. (71.6 × 72.1 cm)

Accession number
83.36.49a-b

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 & 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.

Rights and reproductions
© Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/20248

Part of a series:
Calder's Circus
88 works

Worn cloth toy monkey balancing upside down on its head with bent arms and raised legs.
A rag doll-like sculpture, made of yellowed cloth with a round button-like nose, small rhinestone eyes, a curve for a smile, orange yarn hair, wire hands, and floppy shoes.
A small handmade figure in a yellow cloth balances with arms outstretched on a curved wire stand.
A small handmade doll with a wooden head, cloth body, and wire arms and legs standing.
A small polka-dot cloth doll balances on a thin wire arch weighted by two clay stones.
Small handmade figure with wire limbs and yellow shoes standing with arms raised.
Small handmade fabric figure balancing on its hands with pebble feet and a painted head.
Small stuffed monkey doing a headstand next to a worn miniature gym pommel horse.
A small handmade cloth dog on wooden wheels with a front pull string.
A tall wire-and-fabric puppet wearing a hat and scarf stands with one arm raised.

Alexander Calder
185 works in the collection, 46 exhibitions

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