Best known for his abstract mobiles and stabiles, Alexander Calder (1898–1976) was also a prolific portraitist who created hundreds of likenesses over the course of his lifetime. An exhibition of ...

Jimmy Durante, Alexander Calder, 1928. The Lipman Family Foundation, Portola Valley, Calif. Babe Ruth, Alexander Calder, c. 1936. Calder Foundation, New York Jean ...

Best known for his abstract mobiles and stabiles, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was also a prolific portraitist. In addition to paintings and drawings, this unprecedented exhibition features Calder's ...

Like clouds ambling overhead or waves lumbering toward shore, Alexander Calder’s large-scale mobiles captivate, which may explain why riffs on his famous invention have become fixtures in baby ...

Best known for his abstract mobiles and stabiles, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was also a prolific portraitist. The American artist’s work in this genre is largely overlooked and a new exhibition at ...

“Portrait of Mary Batsell” (1963) is a pencil drawing by Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976) of Mary Batsell, a friend of the artist who he met at a tea party held by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s ...

Is art basically glorified child’s play, extending into adulthood, through a lifetime, picking up ideas and gaining finesse as it goes? That’s one way to think of “Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, ...

But little has been made of Calder’s prolific work as a portraitist — working in both ink on paper and with 3-D bent-wire sculptures. The National Portrait Gallery highlights these lesser-known but ...