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Bird Sketches
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Bird 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 numberW2001.185.039
ClassificationsDrawing
Keyword
Signedsigned lower right
On View
Not on view
Description10 sketches of birds, cutout and pasted onto brown paper with the number '48' hand-written in pencil in the lower right corner. Published as Plate 39 - Birds in "WILD WORK: Animal Drawings by Alexander Calder" exhibit catalog by NMWA, 2004.