
Art Institute of Chicago
Streetcar
Alexander Calder · 1951
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist, Roxbury, CT; sold to Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, by 1952 [New York 1952]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, June 1, 1953.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, Calder-Miró, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Oct. 14–Nov. 4, 1951, cat. 31.
- New York, Cut Valentin Gallery, Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers, Jan. 15–Feb. 10, 1952, cat. 10; Boston, Margaret Brown Gallery, Mar. 10–Mar. 29, 1952, cat. 9.
- Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Fairmount Park Art Association, Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, Oct. 11–Dec. 7, 1952, cat. 21; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 22–Mar. 8, 1953; New York, Museum of Modern Art, Apr. 29–Sept. 7, 1953.
- London, Tate Modern, Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture, Nov. 11, 2015–Apr. 3, 2016, no cat. no.
Literature
Published references
- Mary Gershinowitz, Calder-Miró, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, exh. brochure (Houston: Contemporary Arts Association of Houston, 1951), 17, cat. 31 (not ill.).
- James Johnson Sweeney, Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers, exh. brochure (New York: Curt Valentin Gallery, 1952), cat. 10 (not ill.).
- Margaret Brown Gallery, Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers, exh. brochure (1952), cat. 9 (not ill).
- Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, ed., Sculpture of the Twentieth Century (New York: The Museum of Modern Art and Simon and Schuster, 1952), 22, 23 (color ill.), 41, 214 (ill.).
- Katharine Kuh, “New Sculpture at the Art Institute,” in The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, Vol. 47, no. 3 (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 1953), 63, 66 (ill.).
- Achim Borchart-Hume, ed., Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture, exh. cat. (Tate Publishing, 2016), pp. 204-205 (color ill.); 230.
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