6 January: Calder's father dies in Brooklyn. Calder and Louisa leave their daughters in the care of the Massons and bury Stirling in Philadelphia. (CF, conversation with Mary Calder Rower, 16 November 1997)

March: Calder works on sketches for costumes and scenery for the dance project Billy Sunday, composed by Remi Gassman. The project, intended for the University of Chicago, is never produced. (AAA, Calder to Warner, 6 March, 2 April)

1 June: Commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, to make a work for the sculpture garden, Calder creates Man-Eater with Pennants. (AAA, Calder to Warner, 1 June)

Fall: Calder produces a series of small-scale works, many from scraps trimmed during the making of other objects. Duchamp arranges for Calder to exhibit these pieces at Galerie Louis Carre in Paris. Let's mail these little objects to Carre, in Paris, he suggests, and have a show. Intrigued by the limitations on parcel size imposed by the U.S. Postal Service, Calder creates larger, collapsible works to be reassembled on arrival in Paris. (Calder 1966, 188; CF, exhibition file)

Fall: Andre Masson brings French author and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre to visit Calder in Roxbury. When Sartre visits Calder again at his studio in New York, the artist gives him Peacock, a mobile whose elements are cut from flattened Connecticut license plates. (Calder 1966, 188-189)

13 November-1 December: Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York, presents "Alexander Calder." (CF, exhibition file)

January: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with twenty-nine illustrations by Calder and an essay by Robert Penn Warren, is published in New York by Reynal and Hitchcock. (CF, project file)

Thomas Emery's Sons, Inc., commissions Calder to construct a mobile, Twenty Leaves and an Apple, for the Terrace Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati, designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. (CF, project file)

12 May: Calder inquires with Marian Willard whether she would be interested in having him make jewelry in gold, a material with which he is interested in working. I'd like to make some stuff in gold--but it makes a larger investment--shall we get into that racket? (CF, Calder to Willard, 12 May)

5-6 June: Calder takes his first transatlantic flight from New York to Paris to prepare for an exhibition at Galerie Louis Carre. (CF, passport)