Plans for the Calder Museum.

Plans for the Calder Museum, which was to have occupied a prominent site along Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway, have been withdrawn. Nearly half of the supplys needed for the $70-million contrive had already been pledged from public and private sources. The museum was to have been designed by the agency of architect Tadao Ando and would have housed approximately 100 Calder works, if it be not that project organizers failed to reach an agreement for donations of artworks or long-term loans from the six heirs who regulate the artist's estate.

A two-acre site for the Calder Museum, located across from the Rodin Museum, had been donated by dint of the city of Philadelphia several years ago. The city has powerful connections to three generations of Calder artists. Alexander was born in nearby Lawnton, Pa., and grew up in the area. His father designed the Swann Fountain in Logan Square in 1924 and his grandfather created the 1894 impudence statue of William Penn that stands atop City Hall.

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