Tom Otterness

Cops with Big Gun
1986

A sketch of a whimsical, oversized revolver with various cartoonish characters interacting with it. The gun's barrel is replaced by a series of cylindrical shapes, and a character is seen pushing a cart with similar shapes toward the barrel. Another character is climbing on the gun's hammer, and a third character is sitting inside the open chamber of the revolver. The drawing has a playful and surreal quality.

A sketch of a whimsical, oversized revolver with various cartoonish characters interacting with it. The gun's barrel is replaced by a series of cylindrical shapes, and a character is seen pushing a cart with similar shapes toward the barrel. Another character is climbing on the gun's hammer, and a third character is sitting inside the open chamber of the revolver. The drawing has a playful and surreal quality.

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Date
1986

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Graphite, oil stick, and colored pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (sight): 19 × 24 3/4in. (48.3 × 62.9 cm)

Accession number
2024.201

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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Tom Otterness
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