Flying Dragon (Calder)

{{Short description|Sculpture by Alexander Calder}}

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{{Infobox sculpture

| image = Image:Calderflyingdragon.jpg north courtyard.]]

| title = Flying Dragon

| artist = Alexander Calder

| year = 1975

| type = painted steel plate

| height_metric = 365

| width_metric = 335

| length_metric = 579

| city = Chicago, IL

| coordinates = {{Coord|41.880284|-87.62368|type:landmark_region:US-IL|display=inline,title}}

| pushpin_map = Chicago

| pushpin_map_caption= Location in Chicago

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| museum = Art Institute of Chicago (outdoor)

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Flying Dragon is a sculpture by Alexander Calder in the Art Institute of Chicago North Stanley McCormick Memorial Court (aka North Garden) north of the Art Institute of Chicago Building in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.{{cite web|url=http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/contemporary/citi/object?id=73654&collcatid=8|access-date=June 7, 2007|title=Alexander Calder American, 1898-1976 (highlights): Flying Dragon|publisher=The Art Institute of Chicago|year=2007}} It is a painted steel plate work of art created in 1975 measuring 365 (H) x 579 (L) x 335 (W) cm (120 x 228 x 132 in.). It is painted in the signature "Calder Red" (which is also used in the nearby Flamingo) and is intended to represent a dragonfly in flight.{{cite web|url=http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/contemporary/highlight_item.php?acc=1989.52|access-date=June 7, 2007|title=Alexander Calder (highlights): Flying Dragon, 1975|year=2006|publisher=The Art Institute of Chicago|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070407134932/http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/contemporary/highlight_item.php?acc=1989.52|archive-date=April 7, 2007|url-status=dead}}