Claes Oldenburg

Design for a Police Building Using the Word "POLICE"
1968

Pencil sketch of an abstract geometric sculpture with cubist elements, featuring a series of rectangular shapes and a sphere on a flat surface. The drawing is signed at the bottom left and has a monogram on the bottom right.

Pencil sketch of an abstract geometric sculpture with cubist elements, featuring a series of rectangular shapes and a sphere on a flat surface. The drawing is signed at the bottom left and has a monogram on the bottom right.

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Date
1968

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Sight): 22 × 29 3/4in. (55.9 × 75.6 cm)

Accession number
2002.47

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/13558

Exhibitions

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
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