Alexander Calder Triple Gong

This free-floating sculpture, called a mobile, hangs from the ceiling. Thirteen flat, uniquely shaped paddles are suspended on curving, painted wires in bowing, branch-like forms. Three black crescent shapes hang to our right in this photograph. Ten crimson teardrops, ovals, and rounded triangular forms float in two tiers in an arc that descends gently to our left. The red shapes get smaller as they move away from the black forms. Three of the red shapes are pierced with holes.