CALDER Alexander

Alexander "Sandy" CALDER was an American sculptor and painter born on July 22, 1898 in Lawnton near Philadelphia and died on November 11, 1976 in New York. Alexander Calder is best known for his mobiles, a term coined by Marcel Duchamp during their exhibition in Paris in 1932 at the Vignon gallery, his assemblies of shapes animated by air movements that are also mobiles, and his stabiles. He was the son of a wealthy family of artists, with his mother Nanette Lederer Calder being a painter, his father Alexander Stirling Calder a sculptor, and his grandfather Alexander Milne Calder, also a sculptor.