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Pace Gallery exhibition focuses on a seminal year in Alexander Calder’s career: 1941

NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Pace Gallery, in collaboration with the Calder Foundation, presents Calder 1941, an exhibition focusing on a seminal year in Alexander Calder’s career and the apotheosis of a decade of experimentation following his invention of the mobile in 1931. Calder 1941 will be on view at 32 East 57th Street, New York, from October 21 through December 23, 2011. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Calder scholar Jessica Holmes and a series of 1941 photographs of the artist’s Roxbury, Connecticut studio by celebrated photographer Herbert Matter, which capture many of the works on view. Calder 1941 presents fifteen mobiles and standing mobiles made primarily from sheet metal, wire, and paint, many of which have not been on public view for decades. The year of 1941 has been identified by