Butterfly
1966
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View on museum website →Medium
brush and black ink with gouache on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 57.94 × 78.26 cm (22 13/16 × 30 13/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Olga Hirshhorn)
Accession Number
2015.19.3351
About the Artist
Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder was born on July 22, 1898, in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, into a family of sculptors spanning three generations: his grandfather Alexander Milne Calder created the colossal bronze William Penn atop Philadelphia City Hall, and his father Alexander Stirling Calder was a celebrated monumental sculptor. Despite this lineage, Calder first pursued mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute ...