Skip to main contentDescription6 sketches of hippos, cutout and pasted onto brown paper with the number '20' hand-written in pencil in the lower right corner. Published as Plate 16 - Hippos in "WILD WORK: Animal Drawings by Alexander Calder" exhibit catalog by NMWA, 2004.
Hippo Sketches
Artist/Maker
Alexander Calder
United States, 1898 - 1976
Date1925 - 1926
MediumIndia ink on paper mounted on brown paper
Dimensionssheet: 20 × 15 in. (50.8 × 38.1 cm)
frame: 27 1/2 × 22 in. (69.9 × 55.9 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberW2001.185.016
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