The multimedia artist Alexander Calder, renowned for his famous mobiles and whimsical wire sculptures, showed jewelry at several important exhibitions in the 1940s. Made of hammered silver wire, these kinetic earrings move on the body like Calder’s mobiles do in the air. Calder primarily gifted jewelry to friends, collectors, and family, but it was also sold at Joan Sonnabend’s revolutionary Sculpture to Wear gallery at Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel. His work in jewelry inspired mid-century studio jewelers like Art Smith.