Alexander Calder | Red Gongs | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Title: Red Gongs

Artist: Alexander Calder (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1898–1976 New York)

Date: 1950

Medium: Painted aluminum, brass, steel rod, and wire

Dimensions: 60 in. × 12 ft. (152.4 × 365.8 cm)
Weight: 9.7 lb. (4.4 kg)

Classification: Sculpture

Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1955

Accession Number: 55.181.1a-f

the artist, Roxbury, Conn. (1950–55; sold to MMA)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Three Centuries of American Painting," April 9–October 17, 1965, unnum. checklist.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Sculpture: New Acquisitions," April 6–September 5, 1982, no catalogue.

Bronx. Herbert H. Lehman College Art Gallery of The City University of New York. "Relationships: Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings from the Twentieth Century Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art," November 16, 1984–January 6, 1985, no. 1.

London. Tate Modern. "Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture," November 11, 2015–April 3, 2016, unnumbered cat. (p. 202).

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. "Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor," September 21, 2018–February 24, 2019, no. 155.

Albert TenEyck Gardner. American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1965, p. 170.

Edmund Burke Feldman. Varieties of Visual Experience: Art as Image and Idea. 2nd ed., rev. and enl. (1st ed., 1967). New York, 1972, ill. p. 507.

William Zimmer. "Show Looks at Link Between Drawings and Finished Work." New York Times (December 2, 1984), p. WC32.

Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque et al. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 9, The United States of America. New York, 1987, p. 147, colorpl. 111.

Kathleen Howard, ed. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide. 2nd ed. (1st ed., 1983). New York, 1994, p. 456, no. 44, ill. (color).

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