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

 

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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.



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