Alexander Calder at work in the studio
Object Details
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- No place, unknown, or undetermined
- Physical Description
- 1 photographic print : b&w ; 19 x 23 cm.
- Summary
- Calder, back to the camera, and an unidentified assistant weld pieces of metal. Photo taken in Caracas at Escuela Técnica Industrial of the UCV (Central University of Venezuela), where Calder had been invited by his friend the architect Carlos Raul Villanueva.
Identification of location, photographer, and date from email correspondence with Mendoza's son Claudio Mendoza. This picture is one of several taken by Mendoza during Calder's stay in Caracas. - Citation
- Sarita Guardia de Mendoza. Alexander Calder at work in the studio, 1955 August. Alexander Calder papers, 1926-1967. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Use Note
- Current copyright status is undetermined
- Location Note
- Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560
- Data Source
- Archives of American Art
- Date
- 1955 August
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA)3117
- photographer
- Mendoza, Sarita Guardia de, 1923-1994
- Subject
- Calder, Alexander
- Type
- Photographs
- See more items in
- Alexander Calder papers, 1926-1967
- Topic
- Artists at or with their work
- Metal sculpture
- Record ID
- AAADCD_item_3117
