Claes Oldenburg

Study of a Chicago Fireplug, Upside Down
1968

Pencil drawing of an abstract form resembling a mechanical part or a piece of machinery with cylindrical and block-like shapes, rendered in red and graphite on a cream-colored paper. The artist's signature and date are visible in the lower left corner.

Pencil drawing of an abstract form resembling a mechanical part or a piece of machinery with cylindrical and block-like shapes, rendered in red and graphite on a cream-colored paper. The artist's signature and date are visible in the lower left corner.

Not on view

Date
1968

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Graphite pencil and colored pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Sight): 19 3/4 × 21 3/4in. (50.2 × 55.2 cm)

Accession number
2002.54

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/13593

Exhibitions

Claes Oldenburg: Drawings, 1959–1977

June 6–Sept 15, 2002

Claes Oldenburg
123 works in the collection

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