Calder's Portraits: 'a New Language'

by Alexander Calder and Barbara Zabel

Celebrated for mobiles and stabiles that enliven city squares and museums around the world, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is not widely recognized as a portraitist. Throughout his career, however, Calder created portraits of a wide variety of subjects: well-known entertainment and political figures, sports stars, artist friends, family members, and himself. Some of these portraits are traditional likenesses in oil on canvas or ink on paper, but most...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0978846095
• ISBN13: 9780978846091
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.2" x 12.2"