Claes Oldenburg

Base of a Colossal Drainpipe Monument, Toronto, with Waterfall

1967

A large red archway dominates a chaotic black pencil sketch of rounded forms and scribbled landscape.
A large red archway dominates a chaotic black pencil sketch of rounded forms and scribbled landscape.

Claes Oldenburg, Base of a Colossal Drainpipe Monument, Toronto, with Waterfall, 1967. Graphite pencil and casein on paper, sheet (Sight): 24 × 22 in. (61 × 55.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President 2002.16. © Claes Oldenburg

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Date
1967

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Graphite pencil and casein on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Sight): 24 × 22 in. (61 × 55.9 cm)

Accession number
2002.16

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

Rights and reproductions
© Claes Oldenburg

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