Weekend Member Mornings for High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100

Weekend Member Mornings for High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100

Image of a wooden figurine of two dark brown seals balanced on white pedestals atop a red-brown rolling platform. The seals are poised to pass an orange and white ball mounted between them on a piece of wire.
Image of a wooden figurine of two dark brown seals balanced on white pedestals atop a red-brown rolling platform. The seals are poised to pass an orange and white ball mounted between them on a piece of wire.

Alexander Calder, Seals, from Calder’s Circus, 1926-31. Painted wood, metal, wire, cork and plastic ball, 8 1/4 × 19 5/8 × 5 in. (21 × 49.9 × 12.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from a public fundraising campaign in May 1982. One half of the funds were contributed by the Robert Wood Johnson Jr. Charitable Trust. Additional major donations were given by The Lauder Foundation; the Robert Lehman Foundation, Inc.; the Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation, Inc.; an anonymous donor; The T.M. Evans Foundation, Inc.; MacAndrews & Forbes Group, Incorporated; the De Witt Wallace Fund, Incorporated; Martin and Agneta Gruss; Anne Phillips; Mr. and Mrs. Laurance S. Rockefeller; the Simon Foundation, Inc.; Marylou Whitney; Bankers Trust Company; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth N. Dayton; Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz; Irvin and Kenneth Feld; Flora Whitney Miller. More than 500 individuals from 26 states and abroad also contributed to the campaign 83.36.10. © 2025 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Floor 8

Open to all members

Saturday and Sunday, October 18–19, 9:30–10:30 am 

Members enjoy special weekend morning access to the newly opened exhibition High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100 before general admission ticketing begins for the day. 


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