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Nanette Lederer Calder (born 1866, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - died March 12, 1960, New Milford, Connecticut} was an American portrait and decorative subjects painter. She was also the wife of Alexander Stirling Calder (1870-1945), a sculptor, and mother of Alexander (Sandy) Calder (1898-1976), a sculptor.

Early life
Nanette Lederer was born in 1866 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Education
Between 1888 and 1893 Nanette Lederer studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and the Sorbonne. She studied with Benjamin Constant and Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois. Returning to the United States, Lederer studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she met Alexander Stirling Calder. They married February 22, 1895, and had two children, Margaret (1896) and Alexander III (1899). She painted landscapes, portraits and decorative subjects.

Death
Lederer died March 12, 1960, in New Milford, Connecticut.

Quotes
Biographical dictionary entry for HER

MOWA: Birth date: 1866 	Death date: 1960 Birth location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin 	Death location: New Milford, Connecticut Media: Decorative Art, Painting , Sculpture 	Web site:

Biographical Brief

Wife of Alexander Stirling Calder (1870-1945), and mother of Alexander (Sandy) Calder (1898-1976). Specialty: Portraits, Landscapes and decorative subjects. 1906-1910: lived in Los Angeles, California 1906-1910: San Francisco, Berkeley, California 1913-1915: Spuyten Duyvil, New York Education: Studied at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, with Constant and Courtois in Paris. Art Organizations: 1908: member, League of American Artists. Exhibitions: 1908: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. 1908: Blanchard Gallery, Los Angeles Society of Independent Artists ISBN 0839780176 Margaret Calder Hayes, Three Alexander Calders

""In Nanette Calder ... love of pigment and the fun to be derived from playing with it supercedes what may be more serious considerations. It is indeed possible that these painters were in a company of others of too serious a turn of mind.""

Description of Nanette Lederer Calder's studio

Nanette Calder Leda and the swan in 1921 First retrospective exhibition of American Art. https://archive.org/stream/16891921firstret00ster_1#page/6/mode/2up

"Nanette Calder had a most poetic version of "Leda and the Swan.""

Catalogue of the 103rd Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, January 20-February 29, 1908, Philadelphia: The Academy, 1908. https://books.google.com/books?id=eodLAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA31 Nanette Calder, In Southern California, listed p. 31. Gallery G, Paintings in Oil.

Sixteenth annual exhibition of oil paintings and sculpture, 1904, Philadelphia: Art Club of Philadelphia, 1904. Nanette Calder, The Bow, listed p. 17 https://books.google.com/books?id=YjIuAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA4-PA49