Alexander Calder

Parachutist: Metal wheels

1926–1931

Wire sculpture resembling a small animal with a long tail and curved legs on a plain background.
Wire sculpture resembling a small animal with a long tail and curved legs on a plain background.

On view
Floor 7

Date
1926–1931

Classification
Sculpture

Medium
Galvanized steel wire

Dimensions
Overall: 7 1/4 × 8 1/2 × 3 3/4in. (18.4 × 21.6 × 9.5 cm)

Accession number
83.36.4.2

Credit line
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 & 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/5526

Part of a series:
Calder's Circus
88 works

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A small, abstract figure made of natural materials performs a handstand on a plain background.
A small wire sculpture of a person with a yellow shirt and outstretched arms.
Small, flexible toy figure doing a headstand with arms and legs bent outward.
A vintage toy horse with a fabric body, wooden wheels, and a string attached to its head.
Wire sculpture of a person with a hat, wearing a cloth, raising one arm.
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Alexander Calder
187 works in the collection, 35 exhibitions

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