Vertical Constellation with Bomb by Alexander Calder

Calder on the beach in California with his mother, Nanette, 1909, The Alexander and Louisa Calder Foundation, New York

Family

Calder came from a long line of artists and craftsmen. His great-grandfather was a stone carver in Scotland. His grandfather, Alexander Milne Calder, and his father, Alexander Stirling Calder, were both sculptors. His mother was a painter.