Object Details
Artist
Claes Oldenburg, American, b. Stockholm, Sweden, 1929–2022
Provenance
Christie's, New York, Sale Number 8906,12 May 1988, Lot 5
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund, 1998
Exhibition History
PULITZER FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS, St. Louis. "Water, Harmony and Angst," 20 July 2007-5 January 2008.
MUSEUM MODERNER KUNST STIFTUNG LUDWIG WIEN, MUMOK, Vienna. Claes Oldenburg, 3 February-27 May 2012, color ill. p. 167. TOUR: MUSEUM LUDWIG, Cologne, 22 June-30 September 2012; GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO, 30 October 2012-17 February 2013; MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York, 9 April-4 August 2013.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection," 16 October 2014-24 April 2016, no cat.
Published References
FRANCIS, RICHARD et al. Painting, Object, Film, Concept: Works from the Herbig Collection (New York: Christie's, 1988), pp. 9, 170, ill. p. 172.
UNSIGNED. "Acquisitions," Museums Washington (May 1999), p. 45.
RICHARD, PAUL. "From the Collection: Washington's Prized Possessions," Washington Post (19 December 2004), ill. p. N6.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 190, p. 211.
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund, 1998
Date
1966
Accession Number
98.14
Type
Sculpture
Medium
Canvas, acrylic paint, graphite pencil, wood, plaster, foam, and metal
Dimensions
86 1/4 × 38 × 30 in. (219.1 × 96.5 × 76.2 cm); base: 90 × 18 in. (228.6 × 45.7 cm)
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School
Pop Art (American)
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Link to Original Record
Record ID
hmsg_98.14