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...precious stones. To combat the notion that jewelry makers are not artists but artisans, London's 800-year-old Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths this month is showing the largest recent collection of fine jewelry. For every piece from Boucheron and Cartier, Harry Winston and Tiffany, there is a Calder, a Jean Arp, a Giacometti or a Picasso...
...Calder is perhaps the most at home with jewelry. His strange, twisted wire brooches and earrings are intriguing parallels to his spinning mobiles, and his spiky, formidable necklaces are often wrought from scrap iron. His best work, though, is in hammered silver. American Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz shows a gold-plated necklet cast with an antique turquoise...
This figure by Alexander Stirling Calder is in the Calder show at the Delaware Art Center and appears in the background of your photograph of "Father Calder...
...photograph of a standing figure by the father of Mobilist Alexander Calder may help explain why the mother of the mobilist said the father was a real sculptor...
...Father Calder never quite understood what his son was up to, but he raised no objection. He died in 1945, just two years after Calder had his first big one-man show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. The fame of the third Alexander Calder, the father of two daughters, was now the greatest of all, but his own mother, who died last year, could never quite believe it. "You should have seen his father." she once told a critic. "He was a real sculptor...