Claes Oldenburg

Museum Design Based on a Cigarette Package
1968

Pencil sketch of a classical column lying in ruins with large, dark circular holes suggesting depth. The column is fragmented with pieces scattered around, and delicate lines indicate shading and texture. The artist's signature is in the bottom left corner, and there are some markings on the bottom right.

Pencil sketch of a classical column lying in ruins with large, dark circular holes suggesting depth. The column is fragmented with pieces scattered around, and delicate lines indicate shading and texture. The artist's signature is in the bottom left corner, and there are some markings on the bottom right.

Not on view

Date
1968

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Graphite on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (sight): 22 × 29 7/8in. (55.9 × 75.9 cm)

Accession number
2002.49

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/13560

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
123 works in the collection

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