Alexander Calder, Snowflakes and Red Stop, 1964
Images of Alexander Calder, Snowflakes and Red Stop

- Short An intricately designed mobile consists of many spindled arms ending in small circles. Most of the circles are white, but one is red.
Snowflakes and Red Stop, 1964
Sheet metal, paint, metal rods, and steel wire
58 × 48 in. diameter (147.3 × 121.9 cm diameter)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of The Leonard and Ruth Horwich Family Foundation, 2018.7
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
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Collection
- Alexander Calder, Bird, c. 1952
- Short A bird sculpture with wings extended appears to be made out of found materials like a soup can and rusted wire.
Exhibitions
- Becoming the Breeze: Alex Chitty with Alexander Calder–
- Short A screen capture of a YouTube video shows a small yellow mobile on a table. Above it, a person with red lips appears to blow on it.
- Short A screen capture of a YouTube video shows a small yellow mobile on a table. Above it, a person with red lips appears to blow on it.
- Heaven and Earth: Alexander Calder and Jeff Koons–
- Short Small white circles connected by thin wire balance opposite a thicker orange wire weighted by an orange rudder-like shape hanging from the edge of a white table.
- MCA DNA:Alexander Calder–
- Short A mobile sculpture resembles a cat with a red face.
- Long A standing mobile in the shape of a cat has three metal parts held together with wires and chains: a black body with a curly tail and two legs is framed by three flat white trapezoids to the left a red cat face to the right.
- Alexander Calder in Focus: Works from the Leonard and Ruth Horwich Family Loan–
- Short A mobile sculpture resembles a cat with a red face.
- Long A standing mobile in the shape of a cat has three metal parts held together with wires and chains: a black body with a curly tail and two legs is framed by three flat white trapezoids to the left a red cat face to the right.