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Alexander Calder
American artist Alexander Calder with one of his mobiles in his Roxbury, Connecticut, studio.
The first book published by the American artist Alexander Calder was a drawing manual titled Animal Sketching, which was released in 1926.1
This work remains significant in his career, having been reissued as part of an art instructional series in 1941, reprinted in 1973, and it continues to be in print today.1