Alexander Calder, 1898–1976

Summary information

Date

Thu Nov 11 1976 until Tue Dec 07 1976

Location

MoMA ^{type:exhibition building spaces}
11 West 53rd St. ^{type:thoroughfare names}

Carried out by

The Museum of Modern Art

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October 1976

November 1976

December 1976

January 1977

Alexander Calder, 1898–1976

Between World Wars: Drawing in Europe and America

Rodin & Balzac

Los Angeles: Selections from the Art Lending Service

The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800–1950

Projects: Video X

Photographs by Stephen Shore

Projects: Charles Simonds and Mary Miss

Matisse/Gaudí: Ecclesiastical Designs

Man Ray, 1890–1976

Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture

Prints: Acquisitions, 1973–1976

Harry Callahan

Rooms

Bob Yasuda: Installation/Wall Paintings

New Urban Landscapes

Robert Barry: Portrait: A Sound Piece in Two Parts

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

#	Start	End	Title
1	1976-08	1976-11	Between World Wars: Drawing in Europe and America
2	1976-09	1976-11	Rodin & Balzac
3	1976-09	1976-11	Los Angeles: Selections from the Art Lending Service
4	1976-09	1976-11	The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800–1950
5	1976-10	1976-11	Projects: Video X
6	1976-10	1977-01	Photographs by Stephen Shore
7	1976-10	1976-12	Projects: Charles Simonds and Mary Miss
8	1976-11	1977-01	Matisse/Gaudí: Ecclesiastical Designs
9	1976-11	1976-12	Man Ray, 1890–1976
10	1976-11	1977-03	Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
11	1976-11	1977-02	Prints: Acquisitions, 1973–1976
12	1976-12	1977-02	Harry Callahan
13	1976-12	1977-02	Rooms

#	Start	End	Title
1	1976-11	1976-12	Bob Yasuda: Installation/Wall Paintings

#	Start	End	Title
1	1975-10	1977-01	New Urban Landscapes

#	Start	End	Title
1	1976-11	1976-12	Robert Barry: Portrait: A Sound Piece in Two Parts

Artists

There were 1 persons who influenced this exhibition.

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Alexander Calder

Biographical statement American, 1898–1976

Born 1898 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1976

Nationality American

Gender Male

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Exhibitions

In this dataset, Alexander Calder was involved in 107 exhibitions across 9 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 21 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 2010s with 4 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1930-12	1931-01	Crown Building	Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans
2	1934-11	1935-01	MoMA	Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition
3	1936-03	1936-04	MoMA	Cubism and Abstract Art
4	1936-04	1936-09	MoMA	Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators
5	1936-12	1937-01	MoMA	Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism
6	1938-05	1938-07	MoMA	Three Centuries of American Art
7	1939-05	1939-09	MoMA	Painting, Sculpture, Prints

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1940-10	1941-01	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
2	1940-12	1941-01	MoMA	We Like Modern Art
3	1941-03	1941-05	MoMA	New Acquisitions: American Painting and Sculpture
4	1941-05		MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
5	1941-07	1941-07	MoMA	Animals in Art; Designing a Stage Setting
6	1942-03	1942-05	MoMA	Children's Festival of Modern Art
7	1942-10	1942-10	MoMA	20th Century Sculpture and Constructions
8	1943-09	1944-01	MoMA	Alexander Calder
9	1944-02	1944-05	MoMA	Modern Drawings
10	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Painting, Sculpture, Prints
11	1944-06	1944-10	MoMA	Hayter and Studio 17: New Directions in Gravure
12	1945-02	1945-03	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
13	1945-06	1946-02	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
14	1945-12	1946-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Circus of Modern Art
15	1946-02	1946-05	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Sculpture
16	1946-07	1954-09	MoMA	Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection
17	1946-09	1946-11	MoMA	Modern Handmade Jewelry
18	1946-12	1947-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art
19	1948-11	1949-01	MoMA	Timeless Aspects of Modern Art
20	1949-08	1949-10	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture in Architecture
21	1949-10	1949-12	MoMA	Modern Art in Your Life

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1951-01	1951-03	MoMA	Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
2	1952-03	1952-05	MoMA	Posters by Painters and Sculptors
3	1952-05	1952-06	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
4	1953-01	1953-02	MoMA	International Sculpture Competition: The Unknown Political Prisoner
5	1953-04	1953-09	MoMA	Sculpture of the XXth Century
6	1955-10	1955-10	MoMA	Selections from the Art Lending Service
7	1956-12	1957-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Carnival
8	1957-12	1958-01	MoMA	Children's Holiday Carnival
9	1959-05	1959-08	MoMA	Recent Sculpture U.S.A.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1960-01	1960-03	MoMA	Art Lending Service Retrospective
2	1960-12	1961-01	Country Art Gallery	Birds and Beasts from the Museum of Modern Art
3	1961-02	1961-03	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the James Thrall Soby Collection
4	1962-04		MoMA	Watercolor
5	1962-07		MoMA	Selections from the Art Lending Service
6	1964-05		MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
7	1965-02	1965-04	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
8	1965-09	1966-01	MoMA	44 Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
9	1965-09	1965-12	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: Kay Sage Tanguy Bequest
10	1966-10	1967-05	MoMA	Drawings from the Museum Collection
11	1966-12	1967-03	MoMA	The Taste of a Connoisseur: The Paul J. Sachs Collection
12	1967-02	1967-09	MoMA	Calder: 19 Gifts from the Artist
13	1967-06	1967-11	MoMA	Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
14	1967-06	1967-09	MoMA	The 1960s: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
15	1968-01	1968-03	MoMA	Five Sculptures from the Museum Collection
16	1968-03	1968-06	MoMA	Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage
17	1968-09		MoMA	[Penthouse Exhibition]
18	1968-10	1969-02	MoMA	Drawings by Sculptors: A Selection from the Collection
19	1969-05	1969-09	MoMA	Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection
20	1969-12	1970-02	MoMA	A Salute to Alexander Calder

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1970-02	1970-03	MoMA	Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, 1877–1970: In Memoriam
2	1971-05	1971-10	MoMA	A Selection of Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum Collection
3	1971-11	1971-11	MoMA	American Prints from the International Program
4	1973-06	1973-09	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions, 1968–1973
5	1974-06	1974-09	MoMA	Seurat to Matisse: Drawing in France
6	1974-12	1975-03	MoMA	American Prints: 1913–1963
7	1975-05	1975-09	MoMA	Prints by Sculptors
8	1975-12	1976-03	MoMA	A Museum Menagerie
9	1976-08	1976-11	MoMA	Between World Wars: Drawing in Europe and America
10	1976-11	1976-12	MoMA	Alexander Calder, 1898–1976
11	1976-11	1977-02	MoMA	Prints: Acquisitions, 1973–1976
12	1977-01	1977-03	MoMA	Posters by Painters
13	1977-09	1977-12	MoMA	Abstraction-Création, Art Non-Figuratif
14	1979-05	1979-06	MoMA	Thirty Sculptors' Drawings
15	1979-11	1980-01	MoMA	Art of the Twenties
16	1979-12	1980-02	MoMA	Movin'

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1984-05		MoMA	Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture
2	1985-11	1986-04	MoMA	Contemporary Works from the Collection
3	1985-12	1986-05	MoMA	American Prints: 1900–1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books
4	1986-04	1986-09	MoMA	Sculptors' Drawings
5	1986-05	1986-09	MoMA	Naked/Nude
6	1987-08	1987-12	MoMA	Surrealist Prints from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
7	1987-11	1988-03	MoMA	Master Prints from the Collection
8	1988-11	1989-03	MoMA	Abstractions

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1990-11	1991-03	MoMA	Drawn in America, 1898–1945
2	1991-01	1991-03	MoMA	Artist's Choice: Chuck Close, Head-On/The Modern Portrait
3	1991-02	1991-04	MoMA	Art of the Forties
4	1993-03	1993-07	MoMA	Reading Prints
5	1994-10	1995-01	MoMA	A Century of Artists Books
6	1995-05	1995-09	MoMA	Adding It Up: Print Acquisitions 1970–1995
7	1995-09	1996-01	MoMA	Impressions of Nature
8	1996-05	1996-10	MoMA	Master Prints From the Collection
9	1997-01	1997-05	MoMA	The Maximal Sixties: Pop, Op, and Figuration
10	1998-06	1998-10	MoMA	New Concepts in Printmaking 2: Willie Cole

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2000-03	2000-08	MoMA	Paris Salon
2	2000-03	2000-09	MoMA	The Raw and the Cooked
3	2000-04	2000-09	MoMA	Paris Salon
4	2002-06	2004-09	MoMA	To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection
5	2004-11		MoMA	Painting and Sculpture: Inaugural Installation
6	2004-11		MoMA	The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden: Inaugural Installation
7	2006-01	2006-12	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture Changes 2006
8	2006-05	2006-10	MoMA	Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part 2
9	2006-06	2006-09	MoMA	Artist's Choice: Herzog and De Meuron, Perception Restrained
10	2007-09	2008-04	MoMA	Focus: Alexander Calder
11	2009-01	2009-12	MoMA	Painting and Scultpure Changes 2009
12	2009-05	2010-01	MoMA	Sculpture in Color

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2010-01	2010-12	MoMA	Public Spaces Changes
2	2010-11	2011-02	MoMA	On Line: Drawing through the Twentieth Century
3	2011-01	2011-12	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture Changes 2011
4	2011-10	2012-02	MoMA	Gifted: Collectors and Drawings at MoMA, 1929–1983

Alexander Calder, 1898–1976

Summary information

Date

Location

Carried out by

Concurrent exhibitions

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

MoMA

Clocktower Gallery

Manhattan

MoMA PS1

Artists

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Alexander Calder

Exhibitions

1930s (7)

1940s (21)

1950s (9)

1960s (20)

1970s (16)

1980s (8)

1990s (10)

2000s (12)

2010s (4)

Acknowledgements