Claes Oldenburg

Store Window - Man's Shirt, Mannekin Torso, 39 - on Fragment
1961

A crinkled piece of paper with abstract watercolor painting and crayon scribbles, featuring splashes of green, yellow, red, and blue, with some discernible shapes such as a yellow blob and blue lines that could be interpreted as figures or objects. The artwork has a childlike quality and is dated 1967 in the bottom right corner.

A crinkled piece of paper with abstract watercolor painting and crayon scribbles, featuring splashes of green, yellow, red, and blue, with some discernible shapes such as a yellow blob and blue lines that could be interpreted as figures or objects. The artwork has a childlike quality and is dated 1967 in the bottom right corner.

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Date
1961

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Wax crayon and watercolor on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 18 × 20 7/8in. (45.7 × 53 cm)

Accession number
2002.8

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/13511

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
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