Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
The Arthur and Anita Kahn Collection: A New York Story
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

Cow with Yellow Face

Details
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Cow with Yellow Face
signed with the artist's initials and dated '71 CA' (on the side)
stabile--sheet metal, wire and paint
22 x 27 x 13 in. (55.9 x 68.6 x 33 cm.)
Executed in 1971.
Provenance
Perls Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1971
Literature
J. Lipman, ed., Calder’s Circus, New York, 1972, p. 148 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Perls Galleries, Calder: Animobiles – Recent Gouaches, October-November 1971, p. 14 (illustrated).
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, Work from 1925-1974, October-December 1974, p. 25 (illustrated).
Yonkers, Hudson River Museum, Calder Creatures Great and Small, July-September 1985, p. 50 (illustrated).
Greenwich, Bruce Museum, The Mobile, the Stabile, the Animal: Wit in the Art of Alexander Calder, September-December 1995, p. 27 (illustrated).
Roslyn Harbor, Nassau County Museum of Art, Calder and Miró, June-September 1998, p. 9 (illustrated).
Further Details
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A00665.

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