On view
Floor 7
Date
1926–1931
Classification
Sculpture
Medium
Wire, velvet, thread, wood, steel wire, nails and paint
Dimensions
Overall: 2 3/16 × 3 5/16 × 1 1/2in. (5.6 × 8.4 × 3.8 cm)
Accession number
83.36.36.2
Credit line
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 & 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/42969
