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Alexander Calder

The Big I, 1944

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Medium

engraving, etching and aquatint in black

Dimensions

plate: 11.6 x 17.3 cm (4 9/16 x 6 13/16 in.)

sheet: 24.6 x 32.6 cm (9 11/16 x 12 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams

Accession Number

2008.115.1147

Artists / Makers

Alexander Calder (artist) American, 1898 - 1976

Atelier 17 (printer)

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Inscription

along lower edge in graphite: To George Wittenborn, cordially Sandy Calder; lower right verso in graphite: Sandy Calder

Provenance

George Wittenborn, New York; Reba and Dave Williams, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2008

Associated Names

Williams, Dave H. and Reba W.

Exhibition History

2009: Alexander Calder: Printmaker. Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, Connecticut, 2009-2010, no cat.

2016: Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery in Prague, Prague 1; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2016 - 2017, no. 109.

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