Alexander Calder
21 Oct 2017 - 19 Aug 2018
Alexander Calder, Big Fat Banana, 1969
the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection
© 2017 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection
© 2017 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Alexander Calder, Maquette for Slender Ribs, 1962
the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection
© 2017 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection
© 2017 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Alexander Calder, Maquette for Trois Disques, 1967
the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
© 2017 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
© 2017 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
ALEXANDER CALDER
Scaling Up
21 October 2017 – 19 August 2018
The second exhibition in SFMOMA’s Calder gallery, Scaling Up takes a close look at the small-scale and surprisingly tactile beginnings of the artist’s most sizable works. While best known for his hanging mobiles, Calder also created an astounding assortment of standing sculptures that delight the eye and engage the mind with dynamic contours, soaring lines, and, in some cases, moving components. With more than a dozen loans drawn from the Fisher Collection and the Calder Foundation, the exhibition introduces visitors to the multi-step methods of enlargement that Calder developed to transform handmade models into monumental sculptures. Featuring indoor and outdoor artworks from the 1950s to the 1970s, the exhibition coincides with the fiftieth anniversaries of The Kite that Never Flew (1967) and Maquette for Trois disques (1967), and includes rarely seen working models related to these and other celebrated sculptures.
Scaling Up
21 October 2017 – 19 August 2018
The second exhibition in SFMOMA’s Calder gallery, Scaling Up takes a close look at the small-scale and surprisingly tactile beginnings of the artist’s most sizable works. While best known for his hanging mobiles, Calder also created an astounding assortment of standing sculptures that delight the eye and engage the mind with dynamic contours, soaring lines, and, in some cases, moving components. With more than a dozen loans drawn from the Fisher Collection and the Calder Foundation, the exhibition introduces visitors to the multi-step methods of enlargement that Calder developed to transform handmade models into monumental sculptures. Featuring indoor and outdoor artworks from the 1950s to the 1970s, the exhibition coincides with the fiftieth anniversaries of The Kite that Never Flew (1967) and Maquette for Trois disques (1967), and includes rarely seen working models related to these and other celebrated sculptures.