Sea Feathers

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Medium

brush and black ink with transparent and opaque watercolor on board

Dimensions

sheet: 72.3 × 107.1 cm (28 7/16 × 42 3/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Richard and Elaine Kaufman

Accession Number

2023.31.2

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 ...

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