Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

Notebook Page: Island in the Form of a Blueberry Pie A La Mode
1996

A sketch on a white paper featuring a simplistic drawing of a turtle from a top-down perspective. The turtle is centered on a smaller piece of paper that is attached to the larger sheet. The turtle's shell is shaded with light pencil strokes, and there are hints of blue and yellow color around the turtle, suggesting water. The drawing is not highly detailed and appears to be a conceptual or preliminary artwork. There are some pencil marks and notations around the drawing, including "4/15" at the top and a signature at the bottom right. The rest of the larger paper is mostly blank with some minor smudges.

A sketch on a white paper featuring a simplistic drawing of a turtle from a top-down perspective. The turtle is centered on a smaller piece of paper that is attached to the larger sheet. The turtle's shell is shaded with light pencil strokes, and there are hints of blue and yellow color around the turtle, suggesting water. The drawing is not highly detailed and appears to be a conceptual or preliminary artwork. There are some pencil marks and notations around the drawing, including "4/15" at the top and a signature at the bottom right. The rest of the larger paper is mostly blank with some minor smudges.

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Date
1996

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Graphite pencil and watercolor on paper mounted on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 11 × 8 1/2in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm) Image: 4 5/8 × 3 1/2in. (11.7 × 8.9 cm)

Accession number
2001.217

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

Rights and reproductions
© Claes Oldenburg

API
artworks/13013

Exhibitions

Claes Oldenburg: Drawings, 1959–1977

June 6–Sept 15, 2002

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
28 works in the collection

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