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Lobster Trap and Fish Tail (1939), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1949. Photograph by Soichi Sunami. 1939. Calder is commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, to make Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, a mobile he installs in the principal stairwell of the museum’s new building on West Fifty-third Street.
Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, a mobile by American artist Alexander Calder, is located at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, New York, United States. It is one of Calder's earliest hanging mobiles and "the first to reveal the basic characteristics of the genre that launched his enormous international reputation and popularity."
Alexander Calder. Lobster Trap and Fish Tail. Roxbury, Connecticut, 1939. Painted steel wire and sheet aluminum. 8' 6" (260 cm) x 9' 6" (290 cm) in diameter. Commissioned by the Advisory Committee for the stairwell of the Museum. 590.1939.a-d. © 2024 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Painting and Sculpture
Alexander Calder, Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, 1939. Painted sheet aluminum and steel wire, 8’6” x 9’6”. Museum of Modern Art, New York. An early mobile is Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, which the artist created in 1939 under a commission from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City for the stairwell of the museum’s new building on West 53rd Street.
Added: 27 Mar, 2024. ‘Lobster Trap and Fish Tail’ was created in 1939 by Alexander Calder in Kinetic Art style. Find more prominent pieces of sculpture at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
14 de mar. de 2021 · Throughout MoMA’s formative years, Calder, in his unofficial role as “house artist,” was called upon to produce several commissioned works—including Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, a multicolored mobile that hangs in the same stairwell for which it was made in 1939.
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