Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

Double Screwarch Bridge
1981

Illustration of a conceptual bridge with two large, black, horn-like structures meeting at a peak above a body of water, with cables hanging down from the curved sections. The background depicts a pastel sky and a landscape with trees and roads on either side of the waterway. The image has a signature on the bottom right.
Illustration of a conceptual bridge with two large, black, horn-like structures meeting at a peak above a body of water, with cables hanging down from the curved sections. The background depicts a pastel sky and a landscape with trees and roads on either side of the waterway. The image has a signature on the bottom right.

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Date
1981

Classification
Prints

Medium
Etching, aquatint, and monoprint

Dimensions
Sheet: 31 1/4 × 57 13/16in. (79.4 × 146.8 cm) Plate: 23 1/2 × 50 3/4in. (59.7 × 128.9 cm)

Accession number
82.40

Series
Double Screwarch Bridge

Edition
17/25 | Third state, Ed. 25, 13 APs, BAT, 1 EP, 9 TPs

Publication
Printed by Yong Soon Min; printed by Aeropress, Inc.; printed by Pat Branstead; published by Multiples, Inc.

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Wilfred P. and Rose J. Cohen Purchase Fund

Rights and reproductions
© Claes Oldenburg

API
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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
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