Gallows and Lollipops (Yale University (New Haven, CT) : Overall view, looking across Beinecke Plaza to the Beinecke Library
- Creator:
- Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976
- Published/Created:
- Hewitt University Quadrangle, Beinecke Plaza; Anonymous gift, 1975, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
1960 - Date Depicted:
- 8/22/2008
- Materials:
- painted steel
- Notes:
- The moving parts of Alexander Calder’s kinetic sculptures decorate and energize public spaces across the world. As the painted steel plates of Gallows and Lollipops hover and seesaw around the tip of their red tripod base, they obey chance atmospheric stimuli to destabilize the grid of Beinecke Plaza. Developed in the 1930s, the mobile became Calder’s trademark. While his primary colors follow the purist palette of Piet Mondrian, the animated geometric shapes resemble the abstracted objects and animals in the surrealist paintings of Joan Miró and Paul Klee.
- Topics:
- Sculpture -- United States -- 20th century -- (YVRC)
- Period/Style:
- Twentieth century
- Culture:
- American
- Accession Number:
- 6A1-MJ-GL-A01
- Genre:
- architecture (AAT)
sculpture (AAT) - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
- Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement. - Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- visual works; sculpture (visual work)
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Addition Module Eight
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
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8/22/2008 12:00:00 AM - Source Note:
- Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2013; photographer Scott Gilchrist
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Local Record Number:
- 4654
- OID:
- 10903336
- PID:
- digcoll:1807952