Alexander Stirling Calder

Alexander Stirling Calder ( born January 11, 1870 in Philadelphia, † January 7, 1945 in New York City ) was an American sculptor.

Life

Alexander Stirling Calder was the son of the sculptor Alexander Milne Calder and father of the sculptor and object artist Alexander Calder. Calder began in the workshop of his father and assisted him in the production of extensive, comprehensive 250 individual figures sculptural group for the Philadelphia City Hall (completed in 1893). The design of the arm of one of the characters said to have been one of his first works. In 1885 he studied with the painter Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 1890 Calder moved to Paris where he studied at the private art school Académie Julian under Henri Michel Chapu and nationale supérieure des beaux -arts de Paris was adopted following the École where he joined the studio of Alexandre Falguière.

In 1902 he returned to Philadelphia to seriously deal with the sculpture. He taught at various schools, so at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he taught sculpture and anatomical drawing, at the School of Industrial Art, and at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York.

Together with the Austrian sculptor Karl Bitter Calder in 1912, selected for the sculpture program of the Panama - Pacific International Exposition to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal as part of the World Expo 1915 in San Francisco. For Calder, who ran a studio in New York, were in the 1910s and 1920s, many well-known contemporary people, especially actresses model, among others, posed the once in the U.S. popular actress Audrey Munson for the works Star Maiden and Eastern Hemisphere - Fountain of Energy ( both 1915).

Works

Architectural sculptures

• Participation in the group of sculptures of the Father for the Philadelphia City Hall, completed in 1893
• Figures for the Witherspoon Building, Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, 1898/99
• 6 gusset figures for the Throop Polytechnic Institute (now California Institute of Technology), Pasadena, 1906
• Frieze of the Missouri State Capitol, Jefferson City, Missouri, 1924
• Four figures of famous actresses for the I. Miller Building, New York, 1928

Unique work

• Sundial, West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, 1906
• Henry Charles Lea Memorial, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, 1911
• Depew Fountain, Indianapolis, 1916 ( Calder completed this mission by Karl Bitter after his death )
• George Washington, Washington Square Arc, New York, 1916
• Swann Memorial Fountain, Philadelphia, 1920
• Asia, Africa, Europe & America, goal posts and fountains of the University Museum, Philadelphia, in the 1920s
• Shakespeare Memorial, Philadelphia, 1926

Gallery

Depew Memorial Fountain (1916 ) Indianapolis, Indiana

Shakespeare Memorial (1926 ) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania