Art, literature & historyButterfly
1966
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- brush and black ink with gouache on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 57.94 × 78.26 cm (22 13/16 × 30 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.19.3351
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Butterfly — Alexander Calder. 1966.
Medium: brush and black ink with gouache on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 57.94 × 78.26 cm (22 13/16 × 30 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.3351. Corcoran Collection (Gift of Olga Hirshhorn).
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.