Mobile | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2003.40.20
People: Alexander Calder, American (Philadelphia, PA 1898 - 1976 New York, NY)
Title: Mobile
Classification: Sculpture
Work Type: sculpture
Date: 1956
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/349118

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Painted metal

Dimensions

46.7 x 43.2 x 12.7 cm (18 3/8 x 17 x 5 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: CA 56 on mobile part of sculpture
stamp: top of mobile, on tear-drop shape, signed: Calder's characteristic interlocking "CA," and the date: '56

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Mary Gershinowitz, bequest; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2003.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Mary Gershinowitz
Accession Year: 2003
Object Number: 2003.40.20
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: A very small standing mobile. The bottom portion of the sculpture consists of two upright pieces of painted metal (each surface a different color--red, yellow, or blue) joined together to form a spire on which the "mobile" part is balanced. This upper mobile portion consists of a copper-colored tear-drop shape that rests on the spire, from which extends a series of thin wires, each ending in a small white-painted disc.

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