
Alexander Calder was the son and grandson of sculptors. His wife was the grandniece of William James. They raised a family on a farm near Roxbuy Connecticut. There, as a young man, his idea of humor included dressing his black cat, in a feline sized silk shirt. He described the cat thus attired as like a prostitute. He was young then, and presumably gained some sense as his art matured.
This incident with the cat we found in Bird's Eye View: Dancing With Martha Graham and on Broadway, Dorothy Bird, and Joyce Greenberg (2002).
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