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Alexander Stirling Calder (11 de enero de 1870 - 1945) fue un escultor estadounidense, nacido en Filadelfia, Pensilvania. Fue hijo de Alexander Milne Calder y padre del célebre escultor kinético Alexander Calder .
Alexander Stirling Calder (January 11, 1870 – January 7, 1945) was an American sculptor and teacher. He was the son of sculptor Alexander Milne Calder and the father of sculptor Alexander (Sandy) Calder. His best-known works are George Washington as President on the Washington Square Arch in New York City, the Swann Memorial Fountain in ...
Alexander Calder was born in 1898 in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, the second child in a family of artists. His father, Alexander Stirling Calder, was a sculptor, and his mother, Nanette Lederer Calder, a painter.
Man Cub is a lifesize portrait of the artist's son, Alexander, cast in bronze in 1922. It is part of The Met's American Wing collection, which includes works by various artists from colonial to early-modern period.
A. Stirling Calder. born Philadelphia, PA 1870-died New York City 1945. Sculptor who received numerous commissions, including the Depew Fountain (1915) in Indianapolis, Ind., The Swann Memorial Fountain in Philadelphia, Pa. (1924) and Leif Ericson (1932) in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Learn how Alexander Calder became America's most beloved sculptor by embracing abstract art and marrying a French woman in Paris. Read an excerpt from his biography by Jed Perl, who reveals a hidden side of the artist.
Artist: Alexander Stirling Calder (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1870–1945 Brooklyn, New York) Date: 1938. Culture: American. Medium: Bronze and gold leaf. Dimensions: Diam. 2 3/4 in. (7 cm) Credit Line: Gift of the Society of Medalists, 1938. Accession Number: 38.111.1
