Munson reinstalled the Alexander Calder sculpture “Three Arches” (1963) on Tuesday, April 29, in front of the museum’s Genesee Street entrance. The reinstallation is part of a Downtown Revitalization Initiative project funded by New York State. Partial funding for conservation of “Three Arches” comes from the Greater Hudson Heritage Network.

 

“The reinstallation of Munson’s Calder sculpture represents the crowning jewel of Munson’s Genesee Street lawn,” said Stephen Harrison, director and chief curator. “The sculpture has been conserved and repositioned on a new, lighted pad so that it will be shown to its best advantage.”

 

Commissioned for the newly constructed art museum in 1963 from the artist, the work was praised by Philip Johnson, architect of the building, as “the handsomest piece [by Calder] I have seen.”

 

To celebrate the return of “Three Arches,” the Munson Museum of Art will present a focus exhibition on Calder and his work this spring in the Cardamone Gallery. Featuring sculpture and works on paper from Munson’s collection and archives, the exhibition “salutes the lively spirit that permeates all of Calder’s artwork,” according to Mary Murray, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.

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