Claes Oldenburg

Icebox
1963

Abstract watercolor painting with loose, flowing lines in blue dominating the composition, interspersed with splashes of yellow, orange, and red. The artwork is suggestive of a figure or object but is open to interpretation. It's framed and signed at the bottom right corner with the date '68.

Abstract watercolor painting with loose, flowing lines in blue dominating the composition, interspersed with splashes of yellow, orange, and red. The artwork is suggestive of a figure or object but is open to interpretation. It's framed and signed at the bottom right corner with the date '68.

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Date
1963

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Oil pastel, transparent and opaque watercolor, wax crayon and graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 13 3/4 × 11 1/8in. (34.9 × 28.3 cm)

Accession number
2002.19

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/13522

Exhibitions

Shaping a Collection: Five Decades of Gifts

July 17–Oct 19, 2014
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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