In 1885 at age 16 he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts where he studied under the renowned Thomas Eakins. In 1890 Calder moved to Paris where he studied at the Academie Julian under Henri Michel Chapu and then was accepted in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he entered the atelier of Alexandre Falguière. In 1902 he returned to Philadelphia and began his career as a sculptor in earnest. Throughout his career Calder was frequently a teacher, variously teaching sculpture or anatomy at the Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts, the School of Industrial Art, in Philadelphia, the National Academy of Design in NYC and the Art Students League of New York.
In 1912, Calder, along with Karl Bitter was named head of the sculpture program for the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. Calder obtained a studio in NYC and there employed the services of model Audrey Munson who posed for Calder and a host of other artists. He is buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.
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