Is Alexander Calder dead?

Deceased (1898–1976)
Alexander Calder/Living or Deceased

Did Alexander Calder have siblings?

Margaret Calder Hayes
Alexander Calder/Siblings

How old is Alexander Calder?

78 years (1898–1976)
Alexander Calder/Age at death

Calder died in 1976 at age 78, weeks after the opening of a major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. In the 21st century the Alexander Calder Foundation documented his output at more than 22,000 works.

What did Alexander Calder’s parents do for a living?

Alexander Calder was born in 1898, the second child of artist parents—his father was a sculptor and his mother a painter (figs. Calder was encouraged to create, and from the age of eight he always had his own workshop wherever the family lived. …

Who was Alexander Calder and what did he do?

Alexander Calder was born in Philadelphia in 1898, the son of the distinguished academic sculptor A. Stirling Calder. Trained as a mechanical engineer, he turned to art, attending the Art Students League in New York City.

Why was Alexander Calder known as’sandy’?

The man that made modern art move! Calder, known to his friends as ‘Sandy’, invented the mobile in 1931 when he decided to create a drawing in the air! The artist Marcel Duchamp called Calder’s sculptures’ ‘mobiles’ because they moved when the wind blew. Here is one of his mobiles made in 1953.

When did Alexander Calder get married to Louisa James?

On one of his many transatlantic boat trips he met Louisa James, who he married in 1931. In the late 1920s Calder created more figurative oil paintings, but a 1930 visit to Piet Mondrian’s studio led Calder to shift from figuration to the abstraction permanently.

Where did Alexander Calder go to art school?

In 1922, he took evening drawing classes at the 42 nd Street New York Public School. The next year he studied painting at the Arts Students League (1923-1926), with John Sloan and George Luks while working as an illustrator for the National Police Gazette.