Alexander Calder

Charioteers: Arch of paper flowers

1926–1931

A whimsical sculpture with wheels, pink flowers, and metal parts, resembling a small cart or vehicle.
A whimsical sculpture with wheels, pink flowers, and metal parts, resembling a small cart or vehicle.

On view
Floor 8

Date
1926–1931

Classification
Sculpture

Medium
Paper, covered wire, and plastic

Dimensions
Overall: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)

Accession number
83.36.24.4

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/43391

Part of a series:
Calder's Circus
88 works

A worn wooden sign with the French words "DEFENSE DE TOUCHER," meaning "Do not touch."
A worn wooden sign with French text "DEFENSE DE TOUCHER," meaning "Do Not Touch."
A small handmade figure in a yellow cloth balances with arms outstretched on a curved wire stand.
Small handmade fabric figure balancing on its hands with pebble feet and a painted head.
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.
Worn cloth doll with long limbs balanced upside down on its painted wooden head.
A small handmade doll with a wooden head, cloth body, and wire arms and legs standing.
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
187 works in the collection, 36 exhibitions

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