Claes Oldenburg

Study for a Soft Sculpture in the Form of a Giant Lipstick
1967

A hand-drawn sketch of a red boot with a yellow top, showing dynamic shading and strokes, signed with initials and the year '67 at the bottom right corner. The background is plain white.

Not on view

Date
1967

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Wax crayon, watercolor and graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 30 1/16 × 22 1/4in. (76.4 × 56.5 cm) Mount: 30 3/4 × 22 7/8 × 1/2in. (78.1 × 58.1 × 1.3 cm)

Accession number
2000.7

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Evelyn and Leonard Lauder Fund for the Acquisition of Master Drawings and the Drawing Committee

API
artworks/12366

Exhibitions

Shaping a Collection: Five Decades of Gifts

July 17–Oct 19, 2014
Claes Oldenburg: Early Sculpture, Drawings, and Happenings Films

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: The Music Room

May 7–Sept 6, 2009
Claes Oldenburg: Drawings, 1959–1977

June 6–Sept 15, 2002

Claes Oldenburg
123 works in the collection

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Claes Oldenburg

Study for a Soft Sculpture in the Form of a Giant Lipstick 1967

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Claes Oldenburg 123 works in the collection

Study for a Soft Sculpture in the Form of a Giant Lipstick
1967

Claes Oldenburg
123 works in the collection