List of Alexander Calder public works explained

This is a list of artworks by Alexander Calder that are available to the public.

United States

California

• The Hawk for Peace, 1968, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley
• Bucephalus, 1963, Saroyan Theatre, Fresno
• Three Quintains, 1964, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Four Arches, 1973, 333 S. Hope Street, Bunker Hill, Los Angeles
• Spinal Column, 1968, San Diego Museum of Art
• Le Faucon (The Falcon), 1963, Stanford University, Palo Alto
• Button Flower, 1959, University of California, Los Angeles
• Big Crinkly, 1969, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Jerusalem Stabile, 1967, On loan to the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino
• Spiny Top, Curly Bottom, 1963, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
• The Jousters, 1963, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Connecticut

• Stegosaurus, 1973, Alfred E. Burr Mall, Hartford
• Gallows and Lollipops, 1960, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
• Mountains, 1976, Minor Library, Roxbury

Georgia

• Three Up, Three Down, 1973, High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Illinois

• Flamingo, 1974, Federal Center Plaza, Chicago
• Universe, 1974, Sears Tower, Chicago^[1]
• Flying Dragon, 1975, Sculpture Garden, Art Institute of Chicago
• Le Baron, 1965, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb

Indiana

• Peau Rouge Indiana, 1970, Musical Arts Center, Indiana University Bloomington

Iowa

• Black Spread, 1951, Des Moines Art Center,
• Holy Red, 1960, Des Moines Art Center,

Kentucky

• The Red Feather, 1975, The Kentucky Center, Louisville

Maryland

• Four Dishes, 1967, Baltimore Museum of Art
• The 100 Yard Dash, 1969, Baltimore Museum of Art

Massachusetts

• La Grande Voile (The Big Sail), 1965, MIT, Cambridge
• La Grande Voile (The Big Sail), intermediate maquette, 1965, List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge
• Onion 1965, Harvard Yard, Harvard, Cambridge^[2]

Michigan

• Jeune fille et sa suite (Young Woman and Her Suitors), 1970, Detroit Institute of Arts^[3]
• The X and Its Tails, 1967, College of Creative Studies, Detroit^[3]
• Deux Disques (Two Discs), 1965, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park (Long-term loan from Smithsonian Institution), Grand Rapids
• A Two-Faced Guy, 1969, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park (Long-term loan from Smithsonian Institution), Grand Rapids^{[4] [5]}
• La Grande Vitesse, 1969, Vandenberg Plaza, Grand Rapids
• Rooftop painting, Kent County Administration Building, Grand Rapids
• La Grande vitesse [intermediate maquette], 1969, Grand Rapids Art Museum^[3]
• 4 Planes in Space, c. 1955, Grand Rapids Art Museum^[3]
• Mobile 1, 1953 Grosse Pointe Public Library, Grosse Pointe Farms

Minnesota

• The Spinner, 1966, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
• Octopus, 1964, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
• Red, Yellow, White, 1961, Minneapolis Central Library
• Ahab, 1953, Minneapolis Institute of Art

Missouri

• Shiva, 1965, Crown Center, Kansas City
• Tom's Cubicle, 1967, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
• Five Rudders, 1965, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis
• Le Bonnet phrygien, 1963, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis

New Jersey

• Hard to Swallow, 1966, S.C. Williams Library, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken
• The Stevens Mobile, 1970, S.C. Williams Library, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken
• Five Discs, One Empty, 1970, Princeton University Art Museum
• El Sol Rojo, intermediate maquette, 1968, The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton

New York

• Triangles and Arches, 1965, Empire State Plaza, Albany
• The Arch, 1975, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville
• Janey Waney, 1969, Gramercy Park, New York City (formerly on display at Smith Haven Mall, Lake Grove, New York)
• Object in Five Planes, 1965, Federal Plaza, New York City
• .125, 1957, International Terminal 4, John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City^[1]
• Le Guichet (The Ticket Window), 1963, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City^[1]
• Saurien, 1975, IBM building, New York City
• Man-Eater with Pennants, mobile, 1945, Sculpture Garden at Museum of Modern Art, New York City
• Black Widow, stabile, 1959, Sculpture Garden at Museum of Modern Art, New York City
• Sandy's Butterfly, stabile/mobile, 1964, Sculpture Garden at Museum of Modern Art, New York City
• Whale II, 1964 (1937), Sculpture Garden at Museum of Modern Art, New York City
• Sidewalk Design, 1970, 1014-1018 Madison Avenue, New York City
• World Trade Center Stabile (Bent Propeller), [destroyed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001] 1970–71, 7 World Trade Center, New York City
• Large Spiny, 1966, Pocantico Hills Estate, Tarrytown
• Hats Off, 1969, Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens at PepsiCo, Purchase
• Three Arches, 1963, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Museum of Art, Utica

Ohio

• Intermediate Model for the Arch, 1975, sculpture garden at the Columbus Museum of Art
• Stegosaurus, intermediate maquette, 1972–1973, entrance of Toledo Museum of Art
• Twenty Leaves and an Apple, 1948, a mobile installed in the lobby of the Terrace Plaza Hotel,^[1] currently in the Cincinnati Art Museum^[6]

Oklahoma

• Caracas, 1955, third floor, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City^[7]

Pennsylvania

• Mobile, 1941, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
• Jerusalem Stabile, intermediate maquette, Meyerson Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
• The Ghost, 1964, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• White Cascade, 1975, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
• Three Discs, One Lacking, 1968, Pennwalt/Levy Park, Philadelphia
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh, 1958, Pittsburgh International Airport
• Back from Rio, 1959, in front of the Science Center, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore

Tennessee

• Pregnant Whale, 1963, in front of the Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga
• Nenuphar (Water Lily), 1968, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis

Texas

• Three Bollards (Trois Bollards), 1970, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
• The Crab, 1962, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• International Mobile, 1949, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston^[8]

Washington

• Eagle, 1971, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle

Washington, D.C.

• Finny Fish, 1948, National Gallery of Art
• Cascading Flowers, mobile, 1949, National Gallery of Art
• Aztec Josephine Baker, 1929, National Gallery of Art
• Mountains and Clouds, 1976–87, Hart Senate Office Building
• Six Dots Over a Mountain, 1956, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
• Deux Disques (Two Discs), 1965, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, On loan to the Frederik Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Untitled, mobile, 1976, National Gallery of Art
• Tom's, stabile, 1974, National Gallery of Art
• Cheval Rouge (Red Horse), 1974, National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
• Two Faced Guy, 1969, The Phillips Collection
• Gwenfritz, 1968, National Museum of American Art

Wisconsin

• Red, Black, and Blue, 1968, Milwaukee Art Museum

Outside the United States

Australia

• Bobine, 1970, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
• Crossed Blades, 1967, Australia Square Tower, Sydney

Belgium

• The Dog, stabile, 1958, Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum, Antwerp
• The Whirling Ear, stabile/mobile, 1957, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Canada

• Trois disques (three disks), also known by the title "Man", 1967, the island of Saint Helen, Jean-Drapeau Park, Montreal
• Man (intermediate maquette), 1967, York University Art Gallery, Toronto

Denmark

• Nervures Minces (Slender Ribs), stabile, 1963, Sculpture Garden, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
• Little Janey Waney, stabile/mobile, 1976 (1964), Sculpture Garden, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
• Almost Snow Plow, stabile, 1976 (1964), Sculpture Garden, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk

France

• Crinkly, 1969, Corner of Rue du Clos des Gardes and Rue du 8 Mai 1945, Amboise
• Caliban, 1964, Musee Esteve, Bourges
• Monsieur Loyal (Mr. Loyal), 1967, Sculpture Park, Museum of Grenoble
• Trois pics (Three Peaks), 1967, Nouvelle Gare (Train Station), Grenoble
• La Cornue, 1974, Academie de Grenoble
• Small Crinkly, 1976, Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade
• Théâtre de Nice, 1970, Theatre National de Nice
• L'araignée rouge (The Red Spider), 1976, Etablissement Public pour L'Aménagement de la Région de La Défense, Paris
• Nageoire (Fin), 1964, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
• Horizontal, 1974, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
• La Spirale, 1958, UNESCO building, Paris
• Les ailes brisées (The Broken Wings), 1967, Saint Exupery College, Perpignan
• Totem-Saché, 1974, In front of the church, Saché, Indre-et-Loire
• Les trois ailes (The Three Wings), 1963, Musée d'art Moderne, Saint-Etienne
• Les Renforts (The Reinforcements), 1963, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence
• Empennage (Airplane Tail), 1953, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence
• Guillotine pour huit (Guillotine for Eight), stabile,1963, Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art, Villeneuve-d'Ascq
• Reims, la croix du sud (Southern Cross of Reims), stabile/mobile, 1969, Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art, Villeneuve d'Ascq

Germany

• Têtes et queue (Heads and Tail), 1965, Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery), Berlin
• Les Triangles, 1963, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund
• Hextopus, 1955, American Consulate General, Frankfurt
• Le Hallebardier, 1971, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
• Pointes et Courbes (Points and Curves), 1970, Abteiberg Museum, Mönchengladbach
• Cinq Pics, 1972, Insel Hombroich, Neuss
• Crinkly with a Red Disc, 1973, Schlossplatz, Stuttgart

Italy

• Teodelapio, stabile, 1962, City of Spoleto
• Sabot, stabile, 1963, Sculpture Garden, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
• La Vache, stabile, 1971, Sculpture Garden, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Ireland

• Cactus provisoire, 1967, Trinity College Dublin

Israel

• Homage to Jerusalem, 1977, Jerusalem
• The Cow, 1977, Jerusalem Foundation Community Center
• The Sun at Croton, 1960; Untitled, 1967, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Japan

• Les Arétes de poisson (The Fish Bones), 1966, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa
• Fafnir-Dragon II, 1969, Nagoya City Art Museum
• Flamingo (intermediate maquette), 1973, The Museum of Modern Art, Otsu

Mexico

• El Sol Rojo, 1968, Aztec Stadium, Mexico City

The Netherlands

• Le Tamanoir (Anteater), 1963, borough of Hoogvliet, Rotterdam
• Mobile XII.V - III.H, 1955, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Portugal

• Untitled, 1968, Belém Cultural Center, Lisbon

South Korea

• Grand Crinkly, 1971, Ho-am Art Museum, Seoul

Spain

• Quatre ailes (Four Wings), 1972, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
• Nancy, 1972, S'Hort del Rei Palma de Mallorca
• Mercury Fountain, 1937, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (for the World Fair in Paris)
• Carmen, 1974, Central Patio, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid

Sweden

• Three Wings, 1963, City of Gothenburg
• The Four Elements, 1938/1961, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
• L'un des notres, 1968, Fäladsgården, Lund

Switzerland

• The Tree, 1966, Fondation Beyeler, Basel
  • Big Spider, 1959, Kunstmuseum Basel Brasilia, 1965, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny
• Stabile, 1963, The Nestle Art Collection, Vevey

Venezuela

• Mobile, 1950, Villa Planchart - Anala & Armando Planchart Fondation, Caracas
• Red África, 1955, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas
• Stabile with horizontal blade, 1953, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas
• Aula Magna (Floating Clouds), 1954, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas
• Estalagmite, 1955, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas
• Snow flurry, 1955, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas
• The Devil's Chair, 1955, Caoma House, Fondation Villanueva Caracas
• Móbile, 1955, Caoma House, Fondation Villanueva Caracas
• The City, 1960, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas
• Broken Faces, 1960, Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas

Notes and References

1. Web site: Art + SOM: Working with Alexander Calder. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. April 14, 2020.
2. News: Covering the Yard's Art. Andres A.. Arguello. Lee ann W.. Custer. March 7, 2008. The Harvard Crimson. April 14, 2020.
3. Web site: Calder's Work: Long-Term Installations of Monumental Sculpture. Calder.org. April 14, 2020.
4. News: Frederik Meijer Gardens gets long-term loan of Alexander Calder sculpture. Jeffrey. Kaczmarczyk. April 3, 2019. Grand Rapids Press. April 14, 2020.
5. News: Meijer Gardens Receives Second Calder Sculpture on Long-Term Loan. January 21, 2010. ArtDaily.
6. Web site: Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Spring Cleaning!. February 25, 2016. Cincinnati Art Museum.
7. Web site: Post-War and Contemporary Art. Oklahoma City Museum of Art.
8. Web site: Alexander Calder: International Mobile. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.