Alexander Calder
American, 1898-1976
Mary Reynolds with Her Cats
INV-5388
Alexander Calder
American, 1898-19761955
Mary Reynolds with Her Cats
Alexander Calder American, 1898-1976 →pen and ink drawingsdrawings (visual works)
Date
1955
Medium
Pen and black ink on white wove paper
Dimensions
36.8 × 29.2 cm (14 1/2 × 11 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Frank B. Hubachek
In a letter to Mary Reynolds’s brother, Frank B. Hubachek, Alexander Calder wrote: “I always remember her as being tall and slender with a long straight neck, gray hair on top, going upwards, and a charming face. But I can’t draw it. However, she loved cats.” And so, Calder created a few drawings depicting Mary as he remembered her to include in the 1956 publication Surrealism and its Affinities. The book is a catalogue of works from Reynolds’s collection and library that were given to the Art Institute following her death in 1950.
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