La Grande Vitesse | |
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Artist | Alexander Calder |
Year | 1969 |
Type | Painted steel |
Dimensions | 13 m × 9.1 m × 16 m (43 ft × 30 ft × 54 ft) |
Location | Vandenberg Plaza, Grand Rapids, Michigan |
42°58′10″N 85°40′15″W / 42.96937°N 85.67075°W |
La Grande Vitesse, a public sculpture by American artist Alexander Calder, is located on the large concrete plaza surrounding City Hall and the Kent County Building in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Popularly referred to as simply "the Calder", since its installation in 1969 it has come to be a symbol of Grand Rapids, and an abstraction of it is included in the city's official logo.[1]