Calder Leo Brooch

This piece was created in honor of the centennial celebration of Calder’s Circus, in collaboration with the Calder Foundation and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Calder began his Circus in Paris in 1926 as a portable distillation of the natural circus fashioned from wire, cork, fabric, and other materials—at once sculpture, theater, and performance.

Inspired by the Lion Tamer act in Calder’s Circus, this brooch is handmade from yarn and stuffed cotton, embroidered with “Calder - Bode - Whitney.”

• Made in Madagascar
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