Alexander Calder "Romulus and Remus" Sweatshirt

This heavyweight cotton fleece features the 3-dimensional work of Alexander Calder's Romulus and Remus (1928). This piece-dyed style has our signature "wrap around" body and a 2" x 2" rib, with a custom rubberized label with the artist's signature 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 from the void. Romulus and Remus is one of three large-scale wire works from 1928 incorporating mythological themes—the other two being 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.”

Romulus and Remus, 1928
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