The Exits (Les Sorties)
Alexander Calder, American, 1898 - 1976
1931
Pen and black ink on wove (L.L.F.) paper
Sheet: 22 3/4 × 30 7/8 in. (57.8 × 78.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Peter A. Rubel, Tuck 1938
© Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
D.965.61
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower right: calder / 1931; inscribed twice, upper left and upper right: SORTIE; Watermark: lower left: L.L.F. FRANCE
Exhibition History
Art of the 1930's, Rivier College Art Gallery, Nashua, New Hampshire, (no cat.), September 25-October 14, 1983.
Calder: Circus, Ink Drawings, 1931-1932, Perls Galleries, New York, New York, 1964.
Director's Choice, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, (no cat. no.), June 10-July 10, 1966.
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.
Perception and Belief, Outreach Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October-November 1982.
Works on Paper: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Dartmouth College Collection, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, no. 44, May 30-September 21, 1975.
Publication History
Franklin W. Robinson, [et al.], Works on Paper: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Dartmouth College Collection, Hanover, N.H.: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1975, pp. 62-63.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 25, 162, 266, ill. p. 163, no. 50.
Provenance
The artist; consigned to Perls Galleries, New York, 19sold to Peter Alexander Rubel, Connecticut, 1964; given to present collection, 1965.
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