Alexander Stirling Calder
Alexander Stirling Calder (born January 11, 1870 in Philadelphia , † January 7, 1945 in New York ) was an American sculptor .
Life
Alexander Stirling Calder was the son of the sculptor Alexander Milne Calder and father of the sculptor and object artist Alexander Calder . Calder began in his father's workshop and assisted him in the production of the extensive group of 250 individual figures for the Philadelphia City Hall (completed in 1893). The design of the arm of one of the figures is said to have been one of his first works. In 1885 he studied with the painter Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . In 1890 Calder moved to Paris, where he first studied at the private art academy Académie Julian with Henri Chapu and subsequently at theÉcole des beaux-arts where he joined the studio of Alexandre Falguière .
In 1902 he returned to Philadelphia to take a serious look at sculpture. He has taught at various schools, including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts , where he taught sculpture and anatomical drawing , the School of Industrial Art, as well as the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York .
Together with the Austrian sculptor Karl Bitter , Calder was selected for the sculpture program of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1912 to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal as part of the 1915 World Exhibition in San Francisco . For Calder, who ran a studio in New York, numerous well-known contemporary people, especially actresses, posed as models in the 1910s and 1920s, among others the actress Audrey Munson , who was once popular in the USA, posed for the works Star Maiden and Eastern Hemisphere - Fountain of Energy (both 1915).
Works
Architectural sculptures
- Collaboration on father's group of sculptures for Philadelphia City Hall, completed in 1893
- Figures for the Witherspoon Building, Presbyterian Historical Society , Philadelphia, 1898/99
- 6 gusset figures for the Throop Polytechnic Institute (today California Institute of Technology ), Pasadena , 1906
- Frieze of the Missouri State Capitol , Jefferson City , Missouri , 1924
- Four characters by famous actresses for the I. Miller Building, New York, 1928
Individual work
- Sundial , West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, 1906
- Henry Charles Lea Memorial , Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, 1911
- Depew Fountain , Indianapolis , 1916 (Calder completed this commission from Karl Bitter after his death)
- George Washington , Washington Square Arc, New York, 1916
- Swann Memorial Fountain , Philadelphia, 1920
- Asia, Africa, Europe & America , goal posts and fountain of the University Museum, Philadelphia, in the 1920s
- Shakespeare Memorial , Philadelphia, 1926
- Leif Eriksson memorial in front of Hallgrím's Church, Reykjavík, 1930
gallery
The Nations of the West (1915) Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco
Depew Memorial Fountain (1916) Indianapolis, Indiana
Shakespeare Memorial (1926) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Honors
- 1913: Elected member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design in New York
- 1916: Elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
literature
- Margaret Calder Hayes: Three Alexander Calders: A Family Memoir. Paul S. Eriksson, 1977, ISBN 0-8397-8017-6 (English)
Web links
- Alexander Stirling Calder at artfacts.net
Individual evidence
- ^ Nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "C" ( Memento from March 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Members: Stirling Calder. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 20, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Calder, Alexander Stirling |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 1945 |
| Place of death | New York City |