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Alexander Calder
1898 - 1976
Alternative title: Man, Three Disks; L'Homme; Man; The Man
Owner: Ville de Montréal
Donation
Stainless steel
2130 x 2200 x 1625 cm
Assembled, bolted, cut out, welded
Alexander Calder, born in 1898 in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, came from a family of artists: his father, Alexander Stirling Calder, and his grandfather, Alexander Milne Calder, were sculptors, and his mother, Nanette Lederer Calder, was a painter. He trained as an artist (Art Students League of New York, 1923–25) and engineer (Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1915–19). Considered one of the foremost sculptors of the twentieth century, a “merry engineer, troublesome architect, and sculptor of the times,” according to Jacques Prévert, Calder left his mark in the public space with his “mobiles” and “stabiles.” The latter word, invented by Jean Arp, defines Calder’s monumental artworks composed of simple shapes anchored to the ground, which are found, among other places, in Berlin, Chicago, Jerusalem, Paris, Mexico City, and Seattle. Alexander Calder died in New York in 1976.
The Dizzy Disk in the State Fair Section at Dollywood. It's a lot more fun than it looks, and a lot more thrilling.
Too rainy for field work today. So when I wasn't working with intrepid school kids who braved the weather for a rainy day field trip, or at my desk catching up; I decided it was an opportunity to get some shots around the farm.
Another view of the disk with the farm in the background.
This is the factory Road Race Dual Disk Brake setup on my Kawasaki 750 . This was the first set available for a road bike and is thought to be the first double disk bike in my state and probably the midwest.