La Grande Voile (The Big Sail)

Sculpture in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.

Not to be confused with The Big Sail.

La Grande Voile (The Big Sail)
The sculpture in McDermott Court, 2008

Artist	Alexander Calder
Year	1965 (1965)
Medium	Steel sculpture
Location	Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Coordinates	42°21′35″N 71°05′20″W / 42.359734°N 71.088975°W / 42.359734; -71.088975

La Grande Voile (The Big Sail), sometimes translated The Great Sail, is a 1965 painted steel sculpture by Alexander Calder, installed in McDermott Court on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

References

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2013-08-22). Public Art at MIT. Retrieved 2024-10-14 – via YouTube.
"The Big Sail, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on March 27, 2021. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
"La Grande Voile (The Big Sail)". MIT List Visual Arts Center. January 27, 2014. Archived from the original on October 5, 2019. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
SM '04, Katherine Bourzac. "Is It Art?". MIT Technology Review. Archived from the original on 2018-11-10. Retrieved 2019-11-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Shrock, Robert Rakes (September 23, 1982). Geology at MIT 1865-1965: A History of the First Hundred Years of Geology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Department Operations and Projects. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262192118. Archived from the original on August 28, 2021. Retrieved November 19, 2019 – via Google Books.
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Sculptures	Cirque Calder (1926) Mercury Fountain (1937) Lobster Trap and Fish Tail (1939) Snow Flurry (1948–1959) Floating Clouds (1953) The Whirling Ear (1958) The Four Elements (1961) Teodelapio (1962) The Crab (1962) Sky Hooks (1962) La Grande Voile (The Big Sail) (1965) Gwenfritz (1968) Spinal Column (1968) La Grande Vitesse (1969) Bent Propeller (1970) Eagle (1971) Four Arches (1973–1974) Flamingo (1974) Cheval Rouge (1974) Flying Dragon (1975) Intermediate Model for the Arch (1975) Saurien (1975) Calder's set for Socrate (1976) Homage to Jerusalem (1977) Mountains and Clouds (1986)
Related	Mobile Wire sculpture Alexander Stirling Calder (father) Alexander Milne Calder (grandfather) Calder Gardens

Sculptures

Works

Harvard University	Discobolus Night Wall I Robert Stow Bradley Jr. Memorial Statue of John Harvard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Aesop's Fables, II Alchemist Angola Birth of the Muses Elmo-MIT Guennette Invaders La Grande Voile (The Big Sail) Reclining Figure (Lincoln Center) Sean Collier Memorial Three-Piece Reclining Figure: Draped 1975 Transparent Horizon TV Man or Five Piece Cube with Strange Hole

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