In the context of Snow Flurry (design), explore the Snow Flurry, May 14 of the Artworks.
Year: 1959
This mobile is 243.84 cm × 426.72 cm, and is owned and displayed in the Denver Art Museum, having been purchased for US$500,000 in 1997. It was loaned to a display at Denver Botanic Gardens in summer 2017. It was first displayed at the Tate Gallery London in 1962, specifically lent by Calder. After display in the Tate exhibition it was lent for display to Leeds City Art Gallery who were in the process of negotiating an acquisition for the collection, through the Leeds Art Collections Fund, eventually buying the work Chicago Black. A contemporary report wrote that: "After an exhilarating correspondence we are greatly indebted to Mr. Calder for lending one of his finest mobiles called Snow Flurry—it was in the exhibition—for hanging in the vestibule at the Art Gallery. When it eventually has to be taken down and returned to America, a feeling of discontent is bound to descend also, this time on staff and visitors alike."
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