Little Ball with Counterweight, (sculpture).

Little Ball with Counterweight, (sculpture).

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976, sculptor.

Little Ball with Counterweight, (sculpture).

Sheet metal, wire, and wood.

63 3/4 x 12 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (161.9 x 31.8 x 31.8 cm.).

The piece is made up of tall pyramid base with a small stick across its top point. A sphere is balanced on one end of the stick. A straight pole with a ball on top of it sticks out of the top of the sphere and a semi-circular wire with a ball at the end of it comes out of the side of the sphere.

On loan to Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10021 Accession Number: P.9.79

Lent by Horwich, Leonard J., Mr. & Mrs.,

Work is a promised 50th Anniversary Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard J. Horwich.

Whitney Museum of American Art, "Art in Place: Fifteen Years of Acquisitions," 1989.

Whitney Museum of American Art, "Art in Place: Fifteen Years of Acquisitions," 1989, title page.

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