Little Blue Oval
Posted on April 6, 2011
Object ID: 94.020
Creator: Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976)
Title: Little Blue Oval
Date: 1944
Culture: American
Period:
Dimensions: 11.75"h x7"w
Materials: metal
Credit: Bequest of Monawee Allen Richards, Class of 1934
Object Details
This podcast was created for Art of the Avant-Gardes, 1900–1945 (Spring 2011, Professor Ellen McBreen).
Candace Shaw ’13 and her friend Taylor discuss how the forms and colors of Calder’s sculpture create a feeling of both mobility and duration of time in a tabletop stabile.
