Claes Oldenburg

Proposed Colossal Monument for Park Avenue, N.Y.C. - Good Humor Bar
1965

A sketch on off-white paper featuring abstract forms that suggest a cavernous space with stalactite-like structures. A central figure appears to be walking towards the viewer, surrounded by washes of gray watercolor. The image has a loose, gestural quality with some areas left blank, and there are scribbled marks that could be the artist's signature or notes at the bottom right corner.

A sketch on off-white paper featuring abstract forms that suggest a cavernous space with stalactite-like structures. A central figure appears to be walking towards the viewer, surrounded by washes of gray watercolor. The image has a loose, gestural quality with some areas left blank, and there are scribbled marks that could be the artist's signature or notes at the bottom right corner.

Not on view

Date
1965

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Wax crayon, gray wash, and watercolor on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 12 1/8 × 17 3/4in. (30.8 × 45.1 cm)

Accession number
2002.23

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/13526

Exhibitions

Claes Oldenburg: Drawings, 1959–1977

June 6–Sept 15, 2002

Claes Oldenburg
123 works in the collection

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