Calder Untitled, 1953 Bucket Hat

$55.00 at Cleveland Museum of Art.

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This 100% cotton canvas bucket hat features Calder's gouache made into an all-over print pattern, with Calder's signature on satin label. Calder was also a prodigious painter.  In 1953, he spent a year in Aix-en-Provence, where he set up a makeshift space for paintings on paper. As Calder recalled, “I would moisten the paper with a flow of water and wait till it dried a bit but not too much; then I would draw on it with a brush full of China ink—this would develop clouds and trees and fungi and things of that…