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13 Leaves

1967

Alexander Calder

Sculptor, American, 1898 - 1976

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On View

East Building Tower Level, Gallery 606

Artwork overview

Medium

sheet metal, wire, and paint
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Olga Hirshhorn)
Dimensions

overall: 62.23 × 69.22 × 53.34 cm (24 1/2 × 27 1/4 × 21 in.)
Accession

2015.19.3930

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Olga Hirshhorn [1920-2015], Washington; gift 1995 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2007

Olga Hirshhorn Collects: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007.

2008

Sculpture from the Mouse House: The Olga Hirshhorn Collection at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008-2009.

Inscriptions

on largest and top-most leaf in monogram: CA

Wikidata ID

Q63863406

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