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Nanette Lederer Calder (born 1866, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - died March 12, 1960, New Milford, Connecticut}[1] was an American portrait and decorative subjects painter. She was also the wife of Alexander Stirling Calder (1870-1945), a sculptor, and mother of Alexander (Sandy) Calder (1898-1976), a sculptor.[2]
Early life[edit]
Nanette Lederer was born in 1866 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[1]
Education[edit]
Between 1888 and 1893 Nanette Lederer studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and the Sorbonne.[3] She studied with Benjamin Constant and Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois.[4] Returning to the United States, Lederer studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,[5] where she met Alexander Stirling Calder.[1][6] They married February 22, 1895, and had two children, Margaret (1896) and Alexander III (1899).[7][8][9] She painted landscapes, portraits and decorative subjects.
Death[edit]
Lederer died March 12, 1960, in New Milford, Connecticut.[1]
Quotes[edit]
Biographical dictionary entry for HER [10]
MOWA: Birth date: 1866 Death date: 1960 Birth location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin Death location: New Milford, Connecticut Media: Decorative Art , Painting , Sculpture Web site:
Biographical Brief
Wife of Alexander Stirling Calder (1870-1945), and mother of Alexander (Sandy) Calder (1898-1976).
Specialty: Portraits, Landscapes and decorative subjects.
1906-1910: lived in Los Angeles, California
1906-1910: San Francisco, Berkeley, California
1913-1915: Spuyten Duyvil, New York
Education:
Studied at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, with Constant and Courtois in Paris.
Art Organizations:
1908: member, League of American Artists.
Exhibitions:
1908: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
1908: Blanchard Gallery, Los Angeles Society of Independent Artists
ISBN 0839780176 Margaret Calder Hayes, Three Alexander Calders
"In Nanette Calder ... love of pigment and the fun to be derived from playing with it supercedes what may be more serious considerations. It is indeed possible that these painters were in a company of others of too serious a turn of mind."[11]
Description of Nanette Lederer Calder's studio[12]
Nanette Calder Leda and the swan in 1921 First retrospective exhibition of American Art. https://archive.org/stream/16891921firstret00ster_1#page/6/mode/2up
Nanette Calder had a most poetic version of "Leda and the Swan."[13]
Catalogue of the 103rd Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, January 20-February 29, 1908, Philadelphia: The Academy, 1908. https://books.google.com/books?id=eodLAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA31 Nanette Calder, In Southern California, listed p. 31. Gallery G, Paintings in Oil.
Sixteenth annual exhibition of oil paintings and sculpture, 1904, Philadelphia: Art Club of Philadelphia, 1904. Nanette Calder, The Bow, listed p. 17 https://books.google.com/books?id=YjIuAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA4-PA49
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d "Nanette Lederer Calder (1866 - 1960) - Find A Grave Memorial". Findagrave.com. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
- ^ "Nanette Lederer Calder Mrs. A. Stirling Calder | MOWA Online Archive". Wisconsinart.org. 2013. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
- ^ Hayes, Margaret Calder; Cowley, Malcolm (1977). Three Alexander Calders : a family memoir. Middlebury, Vt.: P.S. Eriksson. ISBN 9780839780175.
- ^ "Lederer Calder, Nanette". Artist Finder. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
- ^ Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1915). "Some of our former students". Schools Of The Pennsylvania Academy Of The Fine Arts, Volumes 110-114. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. p. 69. ISBN 978-1286367490. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
- ^ Calder, Alexander Stirling; Calder, Nanette Lederer (1947). Thoughts of A. Stirling Calder on art and life. New York: Privately printed. p. 5. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
- ^ Leonard, John William (1908). Men of America; a biographical dictionary of contemporaries. New York: L.R. Hamersly. p. 374. ISBN 9781235980756. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- ^ Dearinger, David Bernard (2004). Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826-1925 (1st ed.). New York, NY: Hudson Hills Press. pp. 83–84. ISBN 9781555950293. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- ^ "Nanette Lederer Calder". Herbert Palmer Gallery. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
- ^ Dawdy, Doris Ostrander (1985). "Calder, Nanette Lederer (ca. 1867-1960)". Artists of the American West : a biographical dictionary (1st ed.). Athens, O.: Swallow Pr. u.a. p. 68. ISBN 9780804008518. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
- ^ "Notes of the studios and galleries". Arts and Decoration (January): 143. 1917.
- ^ Souter, Gerry (2011). Alexander Calder. New York: Parkstone International. p. 5. ISBN 9781780424651. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
- ^ Ford, Mary Hanford (1921). "The Current Art". Reality. IV (8): 21.
External links[edit]
- Guide to the Calder-Hayes Family Papers, 1907-1985, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley