Trustees

The Calder Foundation was incorporated by Alexander Calder's family as a private operating foundation in 1987. The Foundation runs its own programs, collaborates on exhibitions and publications, and gives advice on matters such as the history, assembly, and restoration of works by Calder. The Foundation gives no grants and makes no appraisals.

The Foundation also seeks advice concerning Calder's work and life and other issues related to the art world from outside scholars and professionals.

Chairman and President

Alexander S. C. Rower, Calder's grandson

Trustees

Sandra Calder Davidson, Calder's daughter

Andréa Davidson, Calder's granddaughter

Shawn Davidson, Calder's grandson

Peter Lipman, research geologist and past president of the San Jose Museum of Art

John Perna, certified public accountant and senior partner of L. H. Frishkoff & Company

Holton Rower, Calder's grandson

Gryphon Rower-Upjohn, Calder's great-grandson

Seán Sweeney, linguist, farmer, trustee and executor of the Estate of James Johnson Sweeney, and trustee of the Estate of James Joyce

Advisors

Stanley Cohen, Calder's neighbor, friend, and personal attorney

David R. Collens, director of Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York, and co-curator of the 2001-2003 exhibition Grand Intuitions: Calder's Monumental Sculpture

Carmen Giménez, curator of the 2003 retrospective exhibition Calder: Gravity and Graceat the Fundación del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, in Madrid

Arne Glimcher, founder of PaceWildenstein in New York City

Daniel Lelong, founder of Galerie Lelong in Paris

Richard D. Marshall, formerly of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and curator of the 1987 exhibition Alexander Calder: Sculptures of the Nineteen Thirties, and the 2001 exhibition Alexander Calder: Motion and Color, which travelled to seven cities in Japan

Thomas M. Messer, director emeritus of the Guggenheim Foundation, former director of the Guggenheim Museum, and curator of the 1964 exhibition Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition

Arnauld Pierre, professor at Sorbonne University (Paris) and author of nine books and articles on Calder, including Calder: La sculpture en mouvement (1996)

Marla Prather, senior consultant for modern and contemporary art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and co-curator of the 1998 centennial retrospective exhibition Alexander Calder: 1898-1976 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Mark Rosenthal, adjunct curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts, curator of the 2005 exhibition The Surreal Calder, and co-curator of Calder Jewelry in 2008

Ann Y. Smith, former director and curator of the Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut

Elizabeth Hutton Turner, vice provost for the arts at the University of Virginia, former senior curator of the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and curator of the 2004 exhibition Calder, Miró in conjunction with the Beyeler Foundation

In Memoriam

Louisa James Calder was Alexander Calder's wife of 45 years, and mother of his two children, Sandra and Mary. The pair met on a New York-bound steamship from Europe in 1929 and married two years later.

Mary Calder Rower, the second daughter of Alexander and Louisa Calder, was a dedicated and effective supporter of her father's legacy. She was a founding trustee of the Calder Foundation and was integral to the creation of the Atelier Calder residency program in Saché.

Giovanni Carandente authored twelve books and articles on Calder, and curated the 1983 exhibitionCalder: The Retrospective at Palazzo a Vela in Turin, Italy.

Pontus Hulten spent a lifetime in the European museum art world and was a champion of Calder's work. He was the founding director of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, where he was instrumental in organizing the acquisition and installation of Calder's important outdoor motorized sculpture, The Four Elements.

Jean Lipman was the curator of the seminal 1976 retrospective Calder's Universe at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Through gifts and purchase funds, Jean and her husband Howard made possible the core of the Whitney's impressive Calder collection, including Cirque Calder, acquired in 1983.

Howard Rower, son-in-law of Alexander Calder, was an intimate of Calder's until the Artist's death in 1976, and was the founding chairman of the Calder Foundation.