Claes Oldenburg

Study for a Memorial to Clarence Darrow in the Lagoon of Jackson Park, Chicago: Rising Typewriter - Showing Stages
1967

Sketch on paper featuring three abstract figures resembling mailboxes or pedestals, with a dynamic background of swirling lines and cloud-like forms. The artist's signature and some numbers are visible at the bottom.

Sketch on paper featuring three abstract figures resembling mailboxes or pedestals, with a dynamic background of swirling lines and cloud-like forms. The artist's signature and some numbers are visible at the bottom.

Not on view

Date
1967

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Wax crayon and watercolor on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 16 3/4in. (35.4 × 42.5 cm)

Accession number
2002.37

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/13548

Exhibitions

Claes Oldenburg: Drawings, 1959–1977

June 6–Sept 15, 2002

Claes Oldenburg
123 works in the collection

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