1898 02 July b. Lawnton, Pennsylvania His mother was a painter and his father a sculptor. American sculptor
1913 part of the Puteaux Group. 1915 - 1919 Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey studying mechanical engineering. 1923 - 1926 Attended classes at the Arts Student League in New York and started designing for the National Police Gazette. Commenced sculpting. 1925 The Flying Trapeze ~> 1926 Published Animal Sketching. Visited Paris. Made Puppets for the Circus Calder which first bought him to the attention of Marcel Duchamp. Kiki modeled for him. Friends with Nancy Cunard. 1926 - 1931? See Video of His Circus ->; New York Times article ->. 1928 begins a lifetime friendship with Joan Miro, 1929 Inspired -> by Josephine Baker . 1930 Visited the studio of Piet Mondrian ~> which had a profound affect on him. Therese Maure (Therese Treize) becomes his assistant. His fiance Louisa James was in her exercise classes. Became friends with a number of avant-garde artists, including Jean Arp. 1931 It was while Marcel Duchamp was in his studio that the term mobile was born m. Louisa. 1932 Dec. Exhibited his Bell Jar objects at Julien Levy Gallery which were photographed by Lee Miller. 1933 returned to America. 1936 Exhibited at the International Surrealist Exhibition, London Later his paintings were hung in Peggy Guggenheim's London Gallery. White Panel ~> 1940 Visited Kurt Seligmann at Sugar Loaf farm, New York. Friends with Yves Tanguy and Kay Sage. Sketched Mary Reynolds and her cats. 1941 moved to Connecticut. Luis Bunuel took the lease of his New York apartment. Vertical Foliage ~> 1947 Provides original artwork for the catalogue of Le Surrealisme en 1947 or Please Touch at Galerie Maeght, Paris. 1950 Performing Seal ~> 1963 Sabot ~> 1976 d. Nov. 11th. New York. Gabriella Picabia wrote an essay on his work, published in View magazine. See Calder Foundation ->. See wiki ->. See Bio ->. See The Formative Friendship Between Miró and Calder ~> See Timeline