Alexander Calder

Man with Conical Hat

1926–1931

Small handmade figure with a wooden head, metal hat, wire limbs, and wrapped cloth body.
Small handmade figure with a wooden head, metal hat, wire limbs, and wrapped cloth body.

On view
Floor 8

Date
1926–1931

Classification
Sculpture

Medium
Wood, ink, aluminum sheet, galvanized steel wire, cloth, thread, and string

Dimensions
Overall: 9 5/16 × 5 1/4 × 1 11/16 in. (23.7 × 13.3 × 4.3 cm)

Accession number
83.36.56

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 & 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.

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

API
artworks/20252

Part of a series:
Calder's Circus
88 works

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Alexander Calder
187 works in the collection, 46 exhibitions

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