Alexander Calder

He was born in America in 1898 into a family of artists.

Calder is famous for inventing the mobile.

He set up his own art studio by the time he was 8.

He loved to make animals made from metal that moved.

We have one of his sculptures at the Toledo Museum of Art.

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Many people don’t know that he had a fun, abstract side as well.

Sometimes his paintings look like landscapes.

Sometimes they look like plants.

This one is called Onions.

Do you see a face?