Steel Fish, 1934
sheet metal, wire, rod, lead, and paint
Private Collection
Steel Fish, 1934
sheet metal, wire, rod, lead, and paint
Private Collection
These standing mobiles (nos. 73-75) are among the earliest sculptures Calder designed for the outdoors. He made them in 1934 after moving to an old farmhouse on eighteen acres of land in Roxbury, Connecticut. He developed their complex kinetics in detailed drawings, calculating the weight distributions and range of movement of the various elements. "All of them react to the wind...like a sailing vessel," Calder wrote of these works.