Untitled [maquette]

Alexander Calder

ca. 1942

Sheet metal and paint

Seattle Art Museum

Some Calder sculptures were meant to only exist at a diminutive size, while other small works were considered studies for large-scale works. This stabile was part of a series of all-black works from the early 1940s, some of which were monumentalized for his 1943 solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. This composition was not scaled up until 1966 for a seven-foot-tall work titled "The Bush and the Tree". Gift of Ann P. Wyckoff, Virginia and Bagley Wright, Barney A. Ebsworth, Tom Barwick, Linda Nordstrom, Lyn and Jerry Grinstein, Janet W. Ketcham, Jeffrey and Susan Brotman, Jeff and Judy Greenstein, Richard and Betty Hedreen, an