Claes Oldenburg

Typewriter Erasers - Position Studies
1970

A collection of abstract watercolor sketches depicting various poses of a character with a prominent red-orange collar, blue-gray clothing, and a white face with minimal features. The sketches are arranged in a grid-like pattern on an off-white paper, signed with the initials "CJ" and dated '70 in the bottom right corner.

A collection of abstract watercolor sketches depicting various poses of a character with a prominent red-orange collar, blue-gray clothing, and a white face with minimal features. The sketches are arranged in a grid-like pattern on an off-white paper, signed with the initials "CJ" and dated '70 in the bottom right corner.

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Date
1970

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Colored pencil and watercolor on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 14 3/8 × 11 3/8in. (36.5 × 28.9 cm)

Accession number
2002.62

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/13601

Exhibitions

Claes Oldenburg: Drawings, 1959–1977

June 6–Sept 15, 2002

Claes Oldenburg
123 works in the collection

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