Alexander Calder Art Mobiles in 1965 Post

MOBILES
The swinging art
and the man who created it
an article by Richard Lemon 1965

with a Calder mobile on the front cover.

My husband Brian Ladd, is always looking around on the net for cool mobile art related stuff for me. On Ebay he bought me this vintage magazine... The Saturday Evening Post Feb. 27, 1965. I just love it. Not only is it old and in great shape... it didn't smell like mold! It also had a great article on my favorite artist... Alexander Calder. The front cover shows a child reaching up to touch one of Calder's mobiles.

The start of the article shows an action photo of Calder sitting in the center stationary,
and the motion of his mobiles in action. The first piece shown is a stabile, I have not seen it anywhere, it is called "Rat". I love it!! The humor of Calder really shows! They talk with Calder and he seems so delighted and upbeat about his experiences making his mobiles.

On the left a stabile "Bucephalus", on the right "Five Rudders".

Shown above is the Alexander Calder show at the Guggenheim. Where people were able to actually touch the giant stabiles and mobiles. "Albert Einstein once spent 40 minutes watching the entire cycle of a motorized mobile called A Universe at the Museum of Modern Art, and reportedly said he wishes he had thought of it himself".

"Calder broke all attendance records at the Guggenheim, outdrawing even the mighty van Gogh." I think you will like this article very much. To see the article above go to my website:


Feel free to share it with others, I made it large enough to print out for your own copy of history. Enjoy... as I am sure Calder would have wanted us too!!