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These sculptures are frequently cited as early examples of CalderвЂ™s skill. The sculptures were three dimensional and the duck was kinetic because it rocked when gently tapped. In 1909, when Calder was in the fourth grade, he sculpted a dog and a duck out of sheet brass as Christmas gifts for his parents. This style of event later became the finale of CalderвЂ™s wire circus shows. On January 1, 1907, CalderвЂ™s mother took him to the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, where he observed a four-horse-chariot race. He used scraps of copper wire that he found in the streets to make jewelry and beads for his sisterвЂ™s dolls. The windowed cellar of the family home became Calder's first studio and he received his first set of tools. The children were reunited with their parents in late March 1906 and stayed at the ranch in Arizona until fall of the same year.ДЄfter Arizona, the Calder family moved to Pasadena, California. Three years later, Stirling Calder contracted tuberculosis and CalderвЂ™s parents moved to a ranch in Oracle, Arizona, leaving the children in the care of family friends for a year. That year, he completed his earliest sculpture, a clay elephant. In 1902, Calder posed nude for his fatherвЂ™s sculpture The Man Cub, which is now located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Her married name was Margaret Calder Hayes, and she was instrumental in the development of the UC Berkeley Art Museum.

His sister, Margaret 'Peggy' Calder, was born in 1896. CalderвЂ™s parents were married on 22 February 1895.

She then moved to Philadelphia where she met Alexander Stirling Calder while studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

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CalderвЂ™s mother, Nanette Lederer Calder, was a professional portrait painter who studied at the AcadГ©mie Julian and the Sorbonne in Paris from around 1888 until 1893. He is best known for the colossal statue of William Penn on top of Philadelphia's City Hall tower. CalderвЂ™s grandfather, sculptor Alexander Milne Calder, was born in Scotland and immigrated to Philadelphia in 1868. His father, Alexander Stirling Calder, was a well-known sculptor who created many public installations, a majority of them in Philadelphia. Alexander 'Sandy' Calder was born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, on July 22, 1898.

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