ALEXANDER CALDER MOVING MOBILES. ALEXANDER CALDER at Gagosian Gallery, West 21st Street. Cirque Calder 1/2. Cirque Calder 2/2. Alexander Calder performs his "Circus" - Whitney Museum. Calder Foundation. Calder Foundation. Calderfdn. Alexander Calder. Early life[edit] Alexander "Sandy" Calder was born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania on July 22, 1898.
His father, Stirling Calder, was a well-known sculptor who created many public installations, a majority of them in nearby Philadelphia. Sandy Calder's grandfather, sculptor Alexander Milne Calder, was born in Scotland, immigrated to Philadelphia in 1868, and is best known for the colossal statue of William Penn on top of Philadelphia City Hall's tower. Alexander Calder.