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How Alexander Calder's "Mobile" injects motion into sculpture

"I think the mobiles help to slow us down."

"I think the mobiles help to slow us down."

Curator Marla Prather on Alexander Calder's "Mobile."

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Mobile, Alexander Calder  American, Painted aluminum, steel, steel rod, and wire
Alexander Calder
1941