{{Short description|Artwork by Alexander Calder}} {{Infobox artwork | image_file = Gwenfritz.jpg | image_upright = 1 | image_size = | title = Gwenfritz | alt = | other_language_1 = | other_title_1 = | other_language_2 = | other_title_2 = | artist = Alexander Calder | year = 1968 | type = sculpture | height_metric = 1050.0 | width_metric = | length_metric = | height_imperial = {{frac|413|3|8}} | width_imperial = | length_imperial = | metric_unit = cm | imperial_unit = in<!--unit choice seems very odd--> | city = Washington, D.C. | museum = National Museum of American History | coordinates = {{coord| 38.89176900| -77.03196700 }} | owner = Smithsonian American Art Museum }}
'''''Gwenfritz''''' is a painted steel abstract stabile, by Alexander Calder. It is located at the National Museum of American History, at 14th Street, and Constitution Avenue, in Washington, D.C.<ref>[http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=131H210A34097.110790&limitbox_1=LO01+%3D+ias&menu=search&aspect=Keyword&npp=50&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=ariall&ri=12&source=%7E%21siartinventories&index=.TW&term=Gwenfritz&aspect=Keyword&x=7&y=15#focus "Gwenfritz, (sculpture)"]. ''SIRIS''</ref>
It was dedicated on June 2, 1969.<ref>"Caftolin or Gwenfritz?", ''The Washington Post'', Meryle Secrest, June 4, 1969 </ref> In 1983, it was relocated from the west front fountain plaza, to a corner location. <ref>"Calder: Out of Site", ''The Washington Post'', Robert Hilton Simmons, March 30, 1984 </ref> On October 31, 2014, the sculpture was rededicated after being restored and relocated to its original location.<ref>{{cite web |title=Alexander Calder's "Gwenfritz": Rededicating a modernist icon |url=https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/alexander-calders-gwenfritz-rededicating-modernist-icon |website=American History |access-date=9 September 2019}}</ref>
It is named after Gwendolyn Cafritz, widow of Morris Cafritz, who had helped finance the project as head of the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.
==See also== *''Cheval Rouge'', National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden *List of Alexander Calder public works *List of public art in Washington, D.C., Ward 2
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==External links== *[http://greg.org/archive/2010/10/07/after_26_years_the_smithsonian_will_put_alexander_calders_gwenfritz_back_where_it_belongs.html After 26 Years, The Smithsonian Will Put Alexander Calder's ''Gwenfritz'' Back Where It Belongs] *[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2010/10/01/VI2010100106950.html "Industrial remnants"], ''The Washington Post'', Blake Gopnik *{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N73SgqVbrCUC&q=gwenfritz&pg=PT126| title=Going public| publisher= Arts Extension Service| year= 1988| isbn= 978-0-945464-00-6 | editor= Pam Korza }} *http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/the-gwenfritz-by-alexander-calder/ *http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM9CXY_Gwenfritz_Washington_DC *http://siris-sihistory.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!sichronology&uri=full=3100001~!9319~!0#focus
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