Two botanical sketches showing stems with orange capsule tips and blue-accented leaves.

Drawings

Soft Shuttlecocks, Falling, Number Two

1995

Medium: Graphite pencil, fabricated chalk and pastel on paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 27 5/8 × 39 3/8 in. (70.2 × 100 cm)
Accession number: 99.51
Acquired: 1999
Credit line: Purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Evelyn and Leonard Lauder Fund
Reproduction credit: © Claes Oldenburg
Department: collection

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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Soft Shuttlecocks, Falling, Number Two, 1995. Graphite pencil, fabricated chalk and pastel on paper, sheet: 27 5/8 × 39 3/8 in. (70.2 × 100 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Evelyn and Leonard Lauder Fund 99.51. © Claes Oldenburg

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Shaping a Collection: Five Decades of Gifts 2014-07-17 – 2014-10-19
Claes Oldenburg: Early Sculpture, Drawings, and Happenings Films<br><br>Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: The Music Room 2009-05-07 – 2009-09-06
Sites 2009-02-19 – 2009-05-03
An American Legacy, A Gift to New York 2002-10-24 – 2003-01-26
Claes Oldenburg: Drawings, 1959–1977 2002-06-06 – 2002-09-15

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