Vintage 1943 1st Ed. MoMA Alexander Calder Exhibit Catalog James Johnson Sweeney

As shown. See all photos. Rare beautiful book. Belonged to my late mother. Probably her parents picked up during a trip to New York in 1943 or thereafter. However that coincides with WWII, so IDK exact origins.

7.4” x 9.9” x .25”

“First edition of the catalog for the 1943 Calder exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, written by James Johnson Sweeney. Mr. Sweeney, a writer on modern art, actually was a curator at MOMA and the director of the exhibition. Sweeney later expanded the catalog to a monograph on Calder, published in 1951. (This information drawn from the Calder Foundation website.) Catalog lists 98 works of Calder’s art for the exhibition; also includes a brief chronology, a bibliography, a list of Calder works in museums, and a list of prior exhibitions. Also included are 56 black and white photographs of the works in the exhibition, including jewelry, mobiles and sculptures. The list of lenders to the exhibition reads like a who's who of the 1940's art world.”

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