Material / Image Research Lab (MIRL)

The Calder Foundation has amassed and organized an exhaustive archive on Alexander Calder and his work. The archive contains more than 26,000 historic photographs, dozens of films, and thousands of books, magazines, and press clippings, in addition to over 130,000 documents. The Foundation has registered in its archive more than 22,000 works made by Calder, each documented by image, title, date, size, media, provenance, and publication and exhibition history. While the archive is a resource for curators and scholars but not open to the general public, some information on Calder’s work and life documented in the archive may be found on this website. Researchers may explore our extensive bibliography and exhibition history, archival photographs and ephemera, selected historical and contemporary texts, and a chronology spanning the artist’s career.

h/t The Art Newspaper