Swann Memorial Fountain, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Alexander Stirling Calder (January 11, 1870 – 1945) was an American sculptor, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Calder was the son of sculptor Alexander Milne Calder and the father of sculptor Alexander Calder. Calder first worked as a sculptor assisting his father in producing the extensive sculpture program on the Philadelphia City Hall and in 1886 is reported to have modeled the arm of one of the figures. In 1885 at age 16 he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts where he studied under the renowned Thomas Eakins. In 1890 Calder moved to Paris where he studied at the Academie Julian under Henri Michel Chapu and then was accepted in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he entered the atelier of Alexandre Falguière. In 1902 he returned to Philadelphia and began his career as a sculptor in earnest. Throughout out his career Calder was frequently a teacher, variously teaching sculpture or anatomy at the Philadelphia Academy of the fine Arts, the School of Industrial Art, in Phladelphia, the National Academy of Design in NYC and the Students Art League, also in NYC. January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sculptor redirects here. ... Independence Hall Philadelphia (sometimes referred to as Philly or the City of Brotherly Love) is the fifth most populous city in the United States and the largest city in the state of Pennsylvania, both in area and population. ... Alexander Milne Calder (1846 – 1923) Biography American sculptor, born in Aberdeen, Scotland, the son of a tombstone carver. ... Alexander Calder Alexander Calder (July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976), also known as Sandy Calder, was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing the mobile. ... Eakins Max Schmitt in a single scull Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins (July 25, 1844 - June 25, 1916) was an American painter, sculptor, and fine arts educator. ... Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu (29 September 1833 - 21 April 1891) was a French sculptor in a modified Neoclassical tradition. ... Falguières Victor of the Cockfight, book engraving c. ...

In 1912 Calder, along with Karl Bitter was named head of the sculpture program for the Pacific-Panama International Exposition. Calder obtained a studio in NYC and there employed the services of model Audrey Munson who posed for Calder and a host of other artists. Karl Bitter (December 6, 1867 – April 9, 1915) was an Austrian born United States sculptor best known for his architectural sculpture, memorials and residential work. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Selected Architectural Sculpture

• Assisted father on Philadelphia City Hall, John McArthur Jr., architect, completed in 1893
• Witherspoon Building Figures, Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia Pennsylvania 1898 – 1899
• 6 spandrel figures, Throop Polytechnic Institute (now the California Institute of Technology} 1906
• Frieze, Missouri State Capitol, architects, Jefferson City, Missouri 1924
• Figures of famous actors and actresses, I Miller Building, NYC 1928

Selected Other Works

• Sundial’ West Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1906
• Henry Charles Lea Memorial, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1911
• Depew Fountain, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1916 (Calder finished this commission that was just begun by Bitter prior to his being killed)
• George Washington, Washington Square Arc, NYC 1916
• Swann Memorial Fountain, Philadelphia Pennsylvania 1920
• Gateposts, Asia, Africa, Europe & America, and fountain, University Museum, Eyre, Day Cope & Stewardson architects, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1920s
• Leif Eriksson, Reykjavik, Iceland 1932
• Shakespeare Memorial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1926

Images

Leif Eiriksson Memorial, Reykjavik, Iceland

Depew Memorial Fountain, Indianapolis, Indiana

Shakespeare Memorial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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References

• Armstrong, Craven et al, 200 Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of Art, NYC, 1976
• Bach,Penny Balkin, Public Art in Philadelphia, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1992
• Craven, Wayne, Sculpture in America, Thomas Y Crowell Co, NY, NY 1968
• Fairmont Park Association, Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze and Stone, Walker Publishing Co., Inc, NY. NY 1974
• Falk, Peter Hastings, ed., Who was Who in American Art, Sound View Press, Madison Connecticut, 1985
• Gadzinski, Cunningham, Panhorst et al, American Sculpture in the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1997
• Hayes, Margaret Calder, Three Alexander Calders, Paul S Eriksson Publisher, Middlebury, Vermont, 1977
• Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, American Architectural Sculpture unpublished manuscript,
• Opitz, Glenn B ed., Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986
• Proske, Beatrice Gilman, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina, 1968