Alexander Calder
Tightrope Artist
1926–1931
On view
Floor 7
Date
1926–1931
Classification
Sculpture
Medium
Wire, cloth, leather, lead, paint and string
Dimensions
Overall: 5 1/2 × 3 1/2 × 1 1/2in. (14 × 8.9 × 3.8 cm)
Accession number
83.36.47
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
Part of a series:
Calder's Circus
88 works