Alexander Calder, (July 22 1898 – November 11, 1976) American sculptor, painter, and artist, whose works were exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. His work is in many permanent collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the MoMA and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Galerie Maeght in Paris became Calder’s exclusive Parisian dealer in 1950 and remained so for the rest of Calder’s life.