In December, the Metropolitan Museum hosts an exhibition of Alexander Calder’s innovative jewelry pieces with more than 450 bracelets, brooches, necklaces, and rings, each designed with the same linear yet three-dimensional quality as his wire sculptures and mobiles. Calder produced more than 1,500 pieces of jewelry, beginning in 1906, when he used discarded copper wire to adorn his sister’s dolls. This use of nonprecious materials and found objects guided his intuitive jewelry technique, from his bohemian years of the 1920s and 1930s to the war years. His jewelry was coveted by the Surrealist coterie, and today is still highly sought after by collectors and museums. Maria Robledo’s photography showcases Calder’s materials and jewelry in glorious full-color, along with historic photographs of the artist at work. Essays discussing the relationship of these objects to Calder’s other endeavors and in relation to the history of jewelry are by Mark Rosenthal, Adjunct Curator, Contemporary Art, Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach, Florida) and Detroit Institute of Arts, and Jane Adlin, Associate Curator, Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Alexander S. C. Rower, Director of the Calder Foundation, and artist Holton Rower are grandsons of Alexander Calder.

288 pages, 256 illustrations (197 in full color). Includes an extensive chronology. 9 3/4 in. x 12 1/8 in. Hardcover; clothbound, with jacket.

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