Calder Romulus and Remus Crewneck Sweatshirt

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This heavyweight 100% cotton brushed fleece features the 3-dimensional work of Calder's Romulus and Remus. This piece dyed style has our signature "wrap around" body and a 2x2 rib, with a custom rubberized “Calder” signature label on bottom rib.

100% Cotton Fleece
Unisex, adult size XS to XL, Standard Fit
Made in Portugal
Machine wash cold with like colors; Do not bleach; Do not iron design

In the 1920s Calder developed a new method of sculpting: by bending and twisting wire, he essentially “drew” three-dimensional figures in space. In these unprecedented massless sculptures, Calder carved expressive lines out of voids. Romulus and Remus is one of three large-scale wire works from 1928 incorporating mythological themes—the other two are Hercules and Lion and Spring. After the sculpture’s debut in New York, Calder caused a stir by walking down Fifth Avenue with the nearly eleven-foot-long she-wolf under his arm. When asked if he considered it a work of art, he was quoted as saying, “I shouldn’t have made her if I didn’t.”

About Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder (1898–1976) was an American sculptor celebrated as the inventor of the mobile. Trained as an engineer, he combined playful wit with mechanical ingenuity, creating hanging abstract sculptures of balanced, brightly coloured forms that move with the air, as well as monumental stationary works known as stabiles that stand in public spaces around the world.

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