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
- 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)
- See more items in
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
- School
- Pop Art (American)
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Record ID
- hmsg_98.14
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py24ea0c06f-f4e4-48ad-9fd8-2d1bb4e438d6
