More than a decade after being removed for a safety study, Alexander Calder’s “Mountains and Clouds” sculpture could be restored to its full glory — clouds and all.
Restoration is “underway and is on track to be completed later this year, finally fully realizing the acclaimed and influential American artist’s original vision for the work,” according to a statement from Alexander S.C. Rower, who is the president of the Calder Foundation and grandson of the sculptor.
Installed in the Hart Senate Office Building in 1986, the artwork’s black aluminum “clouds” eventually stopped turning, and the mobile was stationary until 2014, when it was lowered for structural analysis.
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