Calder Jewelry

Over the course of his life Alexander Calder had created around 1800 pieces of jewelry.  Most of them were created from scraps of metal like brass and steal and also would contain pieces of ceramic or wood to accent them.  What made his jewelry even more interesting was the fact that Calder rarely used solder; when he needed to join strips of metal, he linked them with loops, bound them with snippets of wire or fashioned rivets.


In 1942 at the oppening of her New York gallery, Peggy Guggeheim wore 1 earing from Calder's collection and another from Yves Tanguy's to show her equal loyalty towards both abstract and surrealist art.  Other people who were presented with Calder's jewlery were close friends of his and people within the art community he respected; such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Alexina Duchamp (wife of Marcel Duchamp), Jeanne Ruca (wife of filmmaker Luis Bunuel), and Bella Rosenfeld (wife of Marc Chagall).