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Artist
Alexander Calder
(American, 1898 - 1976)
Date1945
MediumInk on paper
DimensionsSheet: 15 5/8 x 11 3/8 in. (39.7 x 28.9 cm)
Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer
Object number2019.45
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ClassificationsWork on Paper
Object NameDrawing
DepartmentPermanent Collection
CultureNorth American
NationalityAmerican
On View
Not on viewCentury
- Twentieth
Signedbottom right: A. Calder ‘45
Exhibition HistoryStructures, Systems, and Society: Work at the Interface of Art and Engineering, Palmer Museum of Art, September 11 – December 21, 2025; February Pop-Up: Postwar Works on Paper from the Palmer Bequest, Palmer Museum of Art, February 28, 2020; Summits III: American Master Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Prints, Kennedy Galleries, New York, October 21 – November 28, 1987.ProvenanceMr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman, Detroit
Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1987 from Kennedy Galleries, New York
Palmer Museum of Art, bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, ed., A Gift from the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 178 (ill.).
Summits III: American Master Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Prints (New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1987), n.p. (ill., no. 23).