CALDER, ALEXANDER

Additional reading Alexander Calder, An Autobiography with Pictures (1966; rev. ed. 1977), dictated by Calder to his son-in-law Jean Davidson, is perhaps the best picture of the artist as an individual. H.H. Arnason, Calder (1967), is a critical biography with photographs by Pedro E. Guerrero that traces the development of Calder as an artist; H.H. Arnason and Ugo Mulas, Calder (1971), is a photographic document with anthology, comments, and quotations from Calder and many friends who knew him throughout his career; Jean Lipman, Calder's Universe (1977), is an illustrated biography. This work and the preceding two contain bibliographies by and about the artist. Major Works: Josephine Baker (1926; private collection); Romulus and Remus (1928; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City); Helen Wills (1928; collection of the artist); The Horse (1928; Museum of Modern Art, New York City); Spring (c. 1929; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum); Portrait of Shepard Vogelgesang (1930; Shepard Vogelgesang Collection, New York); Kiki's Nose (1931; private collection, Paris); Dancing Torpedo Shape (1932; Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Mass.); Calderberry Bush (1932; private collection, New York City); White Frame (1934; collection of the artist); A Universe (1934; Museum of Modern Art, New York City); The Circle (1934; Agnes Rindge Claflin Collection, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.); Steel Fish (1934; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Va.); Hanging Mobile (1936; Meric Callery Collection, New York); Dancers and Sphere (1936; collection of the artist); Whale (1937; Museum of Modern Art, New York City); Tight Rope (1937; collection of the artist); Lobster Trap and Fish Tail (1939; Museum of Modern Art, New York City); Spherical Triangle (1939; collection of the artist); Thirteen Spines (1940; collection of the artist); Black Beast (1940; collection of the artist); Hour Glass (1941; Catherine White Collection, New York); Cockatoo (1941; C. Earle Miller Collection, Downingtown, Pa.); Red Petals (1942; The Arts Club of Chicago); Little Tree (1942; Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., Collection, New York); Horizontal Spines (1942; Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.); Constellation with Red Object (1943; Museum of Modern Art, New York City); The Water Lily (1945; Pauling Donnelly Collection, Chicago); Bayonets Menacing a Flower (1945; Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, Mo.); Red and White on Post (1948; collection of the artist); Jacaranda (1949; Wallace K. Harrison Collection, New York); Blriot (1949; Ida Chagall Collection, Paris); El Corcovado (1951; Jos Luis Sert Collection, Lattingtown, Long Island, N.Y.); Universe (1974; Sears Tower, Chicago).