“It just seems sad to me that everybody here is so accepting that we have half a piece of art. You’d never chop off half a painting and keep the other half up.” Since Calder’s “clouds ...

Cloud Music came to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2013 from the Robert Watts Estate and the artists David Behrman and Bob Diamond. Critical to understanding the artwork and establishing a ...

Some art historians describe the grey object as a painter’s mistake. A blurry angel that was supposed to be scraped off became a blob of grey. It still has the gilding and rest of the cloud that ...