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FAQ:
Q: What is Alexander Calder famous for?
A: Cirque Calder (1926–31) Josephine Baker I (c. 1926) Croisière (1931) Small Sphere and Heavy Sphere (1932/33) Steel Fish (1934) and Devil Fish (1937)
Q: Did Alexander Calder get any awards?
A: ALEXANDER CALDER: No, but he’d get up and walk around his desk with agita to bad. Oh, there was a student there in the chemistry class, he was way up back about fifteen rows of seats, everybody took chemistry lecture at the same time.
Q: What was the cause of Alexander Calder’s death?
A: In 1966, Calder published his Autobiography with Pictures with the help of his son-in-law, Jean Davidson. Calder died unexpectedly in November 1976 of a heart attack, shortly after the opening of a major retrospective show at the Whitney Museum in New York.
Q: Did Alexander Calder have children?
A: In 1905 his father contracted tuberculosis, and Calder’s parents moved to a ranch in Oracle, Arizona, leaving the children in the care of family friends for a year. The children were reunited with their parents in March 1906 and stayed at the Arizona ranch during that summer.