Alexander Sandy Calder was born in Lawnton Pennsylvania on July 22 1898. His father Alexander Stirling Calder was a well-known sculptor who created many public installations a majority of them in Philadelphia. Calder’s grandfather sculptor Alexander Milne Calder was born in Scotland and immigrated to Philadelphia in 1868. He is best-known for the colossal statue of William Penn on top of Philadelphia's City Hall tower. Calder’s mother Nanette Lederer Calder was a professional portrait painter who studied at the Academia Julian and the Sorbonne in Paris from around 1888 until 1893. Alexander Calder Born On July 22 1898 was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing the mobile. In addition to mobile and stable sculpture Alexander Calder also created paintings &lithographs & toys & tapestry & jewelry & household objects.
In the 1950s, Calder increasingly concentrated his efforts on producing monumental sculptures. Notable examples are 125 for JFK Airport in 1957, La Spirale for UNESCO in Paris 1958 and "Man" , commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal. Calder's largest sculpture until that time 20.5 meters high, was "El Sol Rojo" constructed for the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
In 1962 he settled into his new workshop Carr oi a very futuristic design and overlooking the valley of the Lower Chevriere to Sache in Indore-ET-Loire (France). He did not hesitate to offer his gouaches and small mobile to his friends in the country, he even donated to the town of a stable tenantry since 1974 in front of the church an anti sculpture free from gravity.
He did make the most of its stables and mobiles at factory mont Tours (France), including "the Man", all stainless steel 24 meters tall commissioned by Canada's International Nickel (Inco) for the Exposition Universal de Montréal in 1967. All products are made from a model made by Calder by the research department (headed by M. Porcheron with Alain Roy François Lopez Michel Juigner to design to scale then by workers qualified boilermakers for manufacturing Calder overseeing all operations and if necessary amending the work. All stables will be manufactured in carbon steel then painted for a major part in black except the man who will be raw stainless steel the mobiles are made of aluminum and made of duralumin.
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