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Sam Talks: Elizabeth Hutton Turner
Join us for a talk with Elizabeth Hutton Turner, professor of Art History at the University of Virginia, as she presents "Calder's Mobility." Turner is a professor and curator whose scholarship highlights Calder's international impact on modern art. Turner organized the 2004 exhibition Calder/Miro: A New Space for Imagination, serves as an advisor for the Calder Foundation, and is the author of works including Calder, Scale and the Problem of Seeing It (2021) and Framing a Paradox: Alexander Calder’s Hollow Egg (2021). Turner is currently working on a new project titled Alexander Calder: A Biography of Objects.
Alexander Calder enjoyed the widest international reputation of any modern American artist of his generation. During the 1920s and 30s he had crossed the Atlantic more than 20 times—exhibiting far and wide, at home and abroad; in solo and group shows: Paris, New York, Chicago, Hartford, Los Angeles, London, Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin, Basel, and Amsterdam. He had established connections. As a member of Abstract Creation Group along with Mondrian, Miro, Helion, Pevsner, Gabo and others. He was included in Alfred Barr’s Abstract and Cubist Art Show in 1936. In 1937 he was featured in the Spanish Pavilion along with Picasso and Miro During the war he had served as an intermediary/advocate for a number of artists in exile in America among them Breton Leger, Masson and Tanguy. This lecture examines the milestones of Calder’s career to see just how travel went hand in hand with his newly mobile aesthetic models and social relations. If his Autobiography is to be taken at face value, Calder would have us believe that he became an artist, made Art—seemingly out of conversation, happenstance— and yes, thin air! Let’s find out why and how.
This talk is free with museum admission. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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