Alexander Stirling Calder was a sculptor working in the Beaux-Arts*
style. The son of Alexander Milne Calder, and the father of
Alexander (Sandy) Calder, he was born in Philadelphia. At the age
of sixteen, he enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts*,
where he studied drawing with Thomas Eakins. In 1890 he left to
study at the Academie Julian* in Paris under Henri Chapu and with Alexandre
Falguiere at Ecole des Beaux-Arts*, Paris, France.
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San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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