Claes Oldenburg

Proposed Colossal Monument for the End of the Navy Pier, Chicago: Fireplug - Two Views
1968

A pencil sketch on paper featuring two separate images. The top half shows a side view of a boxing glove with a fence and a tall, narrow structure in the background. The bottom half depicts a frontal view of a pair of binoculars resting on a surface with some squiggly lines and shapes in the foreground. The artist's signature and the year '02 are visible in the bottom right corner.

A pencil sketch on paper featuring two separate images. The top half shows a side view of a boxing glove with a fence and a tall, narrow structure in the background. The bottom half depicts a frontal view of a pair of binoculars resting on a surface with some squiggly lines and shapes in the foreground. The artist's signature and the year '02 are visible in the bottom right corner.

Not on view

Date
1968

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 30 1/16 × 22 1/16in. (76.4 × 56 cm)

Accession number
2002.52

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/13591

Exhibitions

Claes Oldenburg: Drawings, 1959–1977

June 6–Sept 15, 2002

Claes Oldenburg
123 works in the collection

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