Mickey Mouse sketch with brown ears and a large red heart beside it.

Claes Oldenburg

Study for Announcement for One-Man Show at Dwan Gallery—Mickey Mouse with Red Heart

1963

Not on view

123 works in the collection
23 exhibitions

View more by this artist https://whitney.org/collection/works/13514

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Wax crayon and watercolor on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Sight): 16 5/8 × 13 3/4 in. (42.2 × 34.9 cm)

Accession number
2002.11

Credit line
Gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President

Rights and reproductions
© Claes Oldenburg

API
artworks/13514

Exhibitions

Installation photography

Installation view of Claes Oldenburg: Drawn from Life (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 5, 2025-). From left to right: Various Positions of Giant Lipstick to Replace the Fountain of Eros, Piccadilly Circus, London, 1966; Study for a Soft Toilet, 1965; Ketchup, Thick and Thin—from a N.Y.C. Billboard, 1965; Icebox, 1963; Banana, 1966; Study for Announcement for One-Man Show at Dwan Gallery—Mickey Mouse with Red Heart, 1963. Photograph by Ron Amstutz

From the exhibition Claes Oldenburg: Drawn from Life