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Alexander Calder
Three Quintains (Hello Girls)1964

On view:
LACMA Campus, Geffen Plaza
Large-scale outdoor mobile sculpture with colorful disc-shaped paddles in red, yellow, black, white, and purple suspended over an oval reflecting pool with white pyramid forms, installed beneath a modernist concrete building

Alexander Calder, Three Quintains (Hello Girls), 1964, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art Museum Council Fund, photo © Fredrik Nilsen Studio

Artist or Maker
Alexander Calder
United States, 1898-1976
Title
Three Quintains (Hello Girls)
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1964
Medium
Painted sheet metal and rods in water basin
Dimensions
Overall: 275 x 288 in. (698.5 x 731.52 cm)
Credit Line
Art Museum Council Fund
Accession Number
M.65.10.1-.3
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Tuchman, Maurice, ed. American Sculpture of the Sixties. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967.
  • Barron, Stephanie, and Lisa Mark, eds. Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2013.
  • Muchnic, Suzanne. LACMA So Far: Portrait of a Museum in the Making. San Marino, California: Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2015.
Copyright
© Calder Foundation, New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, photo © Fredrik Nilsen Studio

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