Tricolor on Pyramid
Artist
Alexander Calder
American, 1898–1976
Date1965
MediumPainted sheet metal and steel wire
Dimensions48 x 78 in. (121.9 x 198.1 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)
Object numberG.69.12.1/a-b
On View
Not on view"La Chronique des Arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1213 (February 1970), listed no. 417, illus. (b-w).
"Recent Accessions of American and Canadian Museums," Art Quarterly 33 (Spring 1970), listed 92.
Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 138, illus. (b-w) 139.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (color) 29.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (color) 279.
Joe Rada, "From Classical to Contemporary," Southern Living 27 (December 1992), noted 30.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection," October 1970, 138, illus. (b-w) 139.
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