Claes Oldenburg

Ketchup, Thick and Thin - from a N.Y.C. Billboard
1965

Abstract watercolor painting featuring bold red shapes resembling elongated figures or drips, with a greenish-blue horizontal stroke at the top and splatters of red at the bottom, on a cream-colored background. There's a signature at the bottom right corner.

Abstract watercolor painting featuring bold red shapes resembling elongated figures or drips, with a greenish-blue horizontal stroke at the top and splatters of red at the bottom, on a cream-colored background. There's a signature at the bottom right corner.

Not on view

Date
1965

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Fabricated chalk and watercolor on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Sight): 17 1/4 × 11 3/4in. (43.8 × 29.8 cm)

Accession number
2002.21

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/13524

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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