Alexander Stirling Calder

Alexander Stirling Calder was an American sculptor and teacher. Son of the sculptor Alexander Milne Calder and father of the sculptor Alexander Calder, his bestknown works are George Washington as President on the Washington Square Arch in New York City, the Swann Memorial Fountain in Philadelphia, and the Leif Eriksson Memorial in Reykjavk, Iceland.

Calder was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1870. At the age of 16, A. Stirling Calder attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts where he studied under Thomas Eakins. He apprenticed as a sculptor the following year, working on his fathers extensive sculpture program for Philadelphia City Hall, and is reported to have modeled the arm of one of the figures. In 1890, he moved to Paris where he studied at the Acadmie Julian under Henri Michel Chapu, and then was accepted in the cole des BeauxArts where he entered the atelier of Alexandre Falguire.

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