SAM Calder Eagle Pin

$12.95 at Seattle Art Museum.

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Enamel pin with silver tone base metal, representing The Eagle by artist Alexander Calder. A third-generation American sculptor, Alexander Calder studied mechanical engineering before studying art. In the 1920s-30s while in Paris, he developed two distinctive genres of sculpture: mobiles, or sculptures that move, and stabiles, which are stationary. The Eagle, created at a time when Calder was recognized as one of the world's greatest sculptors, reveals the artist's distinctive combination of pragmatism and…