Exhibition Tour
High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100
Daily, October 2025–March 2026
Alexander Calder, Mr. Loyal, Ringmaster, Red Fabric, and Ring from Calder's Circus, 1926-31. Wire, cloth, leather, cardboard, cork, paper, rhinestones, fabric, and painted wood, dimensions variable. 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 83.36.26, 83.36.35.17-25. © 2025 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph by Jens Mortensen
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Gallery tours through the Whitney’s current exhibitions are offered each day. Join a museum docent for insight into the works on view. See events calendar for timings.
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