A small grassy island shaped like a violin with strings, tuning scroll, and a paddle-like bow.

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

Soft Viola Island

2001

Not on view

28 works in the collection
5 exhibitions

View more by this artist https://whitney.org/collection/works/17163

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Pastel on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 34 1/8 × 46 9/16 in. (86.7 × 118.3 cm)

Accession number
2002.277

Credit line
Gift of Robert J. Hurst and The American Contemporary Art Foundation

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/17163

Exhibitions

Claes Oldenburg: Early Sculpture, Drawings, and Happenings Films

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: The Music Room

May 7–Sept 6, 2009
An American Legacy, A Gift to New York

Oct 24, 2002–Jan 26, 2003

See also

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Soft Viola
2002