Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

Typewriter Eraser
1977

A minimalist abstract artwork featuring a bold orange swirl with a black outline, accented by a thick blue brushstroke on the top right. The background is plain white. There is handwritten text at the bottom left corner and a signature with the year '77' at the bottom right corner.

A minimalist abstract artwork featuring a bold orange swirl with a black outline, accented by a thick blue brushstroke on the top right. The background is plain white. There is handwritten text at the bottom left corner and a signature with the year '77' at the bottom right corner.

Not on view

Date
1977

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Crayon and watercolor on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 16 1/2 × 11in. (41.9 × 27.9 cm)

Accession number
2002.63

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/13602

Exhibitions

Claes Oldenburg: Drawings, 1959–1977

June 6–Sept 15, 2002

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
28 works in the collection

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