id:			136649
accession number:	1961.195
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.195
updated:		2025-07-01 11:07:05.346000

White Loops and Red Spiral on Black Stabile, 1959. Alexander Calder (American, 1898–1976). Painted steel and aluminum; overall: 77.5 cm (30 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Halle Bros. Co. 1961.195 © Estate of Alexander Calder / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

title:				White Loops and Red Spiral on Black Stabile
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creation date:			1959
creation date earliest:		1959
creation date latest:		1959
current location:		225 German Expressionism & Surrealism
creditline:			Gift of The Halle Bros. Co.
copyright:			© Estate of Alexander Calder / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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culture:	America
technique:	painted steel and aluminum
department:	American Painting and Sculpture
collection:	American - Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* Alexander Calder (American, 1898–1976)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 77.5 cm (30 1/2 in.)
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	inscription:	initialled and dated on one of white shapes:  CA 59
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review (1961)
	opening date:   1961-11-01T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review (1961)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961).

	title:		Works from the Contemporary Collection
	opening date:   1969-07-01T04:00:00
	<i>Works from the Contemporary Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 1-October 15, 1969).

	title:		Images of the Mind
	opening date:   1987-07-07T04:00:00
	<i>Images of the Mind</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987).

	title:		Changing Dimensions: Works on Paper by Sculptors
	opening date:   1995-11-22T05:00:00
	<i>Changing Dimensions: Works on Paper by Sculptors</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1995-January 24, 1996).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'CMA:  Works from the Contemporary Collection, July 1-mid-October, 1969', 'opening_date': '1969-10-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	[Perls Galleries, New York, NY]
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	[Seventeen Magazine, New York, NY]
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	The Halle Brothers Company, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1961
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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CITATIONS

	Calder, Alexander, Robert Müller, Reg Butler, and William D. Wixom. “Three Contemporary Sculptures.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 49, no. 3 (March 1962): 60–63.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 60-61, fig. 1
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25142500

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