Alexander Calder<br/>
American 1898–1976<br/>
<em>Triple Gong</em> 1951<br/>
painted steel, painted wire, and brass<br/>
78.7 x 172.7 cm<br/>
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Gift of Mr. And Mrs. Klaus G. Perls<br/>
Accession number: 1996.120.27<br/>
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Alexander Calder is widely regarded as the artist who made sculpture move, forging a practice in dialogue with the world in motion and the motion in things. His radical and pioneering methods of making art – understood both technically and conceptually – changed the course of modern art.