A biography of Alexander Calder provided by the Pace Gallery, Los Angeles and New York, USA.
Ref: http://www.razorfish.com/pace
1918 Born July 22 in Lawnton, Pennsylvania.
1919 Receives degree in mechanical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey.
1923-25 Studies at the Art Students League in New York.
1926 First solo exhibition at The Artists Gallery, New York.
Studies at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris.
Begins work on a miniature circus comprised of wire figures.
1931 Moves to Paris. Begins to make mobiles.
1933 Returns to the United States and moves to Roxbury, Connecticut.
1950 Retrospective at M.I.T. in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1954 Moves to Sachie, France.
1958 Traveling retrospective presented by the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
1964 Retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
1966 Publishes autobiography.
1969 Major retrospective exhibition at the Foundation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France; travels.
1970 Calder's Circus is installed at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York on extended loan.
1975 Receives the United Nations Peace Medal.
1976 Major retrospective presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Dies on November 11 in New York
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
The Art Museum at Florida International Universtity, Miami, Florida
Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, Turin, Italy
Havana Museum, Havana, Cuba
Kentucky Center for the Arts, Louisville, Kentucky
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Maison de la Culture, Bourges, France
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Mount Herzl, Jerusalem, Israel
Musee de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Musee national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Museum of New Art, Ladz, Poland
Musem of Western Art, Moscow, Russia
Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
National Museum of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, New York
Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois
Openluchtmuseum voor Beeldhouwkunst Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey
Storm King Art Center, Sculpture Park, Mountainville, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
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