
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.