Spider

Alexander Calder · 1939

This one's called Spider — a sculpture by Calder, nineteen thirty-nine. Calder was part of the kinetic art movement. It's painted sheet aluminum, steel rod, and steel wire, about 2 by 2.2 meters.

Medium Painted sheet aluminum, steel rod, and steel wire · Dimensions 6' 8 1/2" x 7' 4 1/2" x 36 1/2" (203.5 x 224.5 x 92.6 cm) · Credit Gift of the artist

Hanging beside it in Gallery 522: Gibraltar, Constellation with Red Object

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Encounter, Bridge, Table Piece LXXXVIII (The Deluge), Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp, Synchromy in Blue, Kwannon

More by Alexander Calder here: Brooch, Sow, Cow, Gibraltar, Constellation with Red Object