Claes Oldenburg

Store Window - Yellow Shirt, Red Bow Tie
1961

A vibrant and abstract artwork featuring a mix of scribbles, shapes, and colors. Dominant hues of red, blue, yellow, and green overlap and intertwine across the canvas, with a prominent yellow shape resembling a figure in the center. The piece exudes a childlike spontaneity with its loose forms and energetic lines.

A vibrant and abstract artwork featuring a mix of scribbles, shapes, and colors. Dominant hues of red, blue, yellow, and green overlap and intertwine across the canvas, with a prominent yellow shape resembling a figure in the center. The piece exudes a childlike spontaneity with its loose forms and energetic lines.

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Date
1961

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Wax crayon and watercolor on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 11 7/8 × 17 1/2in. (30.2 × 44.5 cm)

Accession number
2002.7

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President

Rights and reproductions
© Claes Oldenburg

API
artworks/13510

Exhibitions

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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