Large framed drawing shows a bold black abstract shape spreading across a typed paper background.

Drawings

Suggested Design for a Brochure Announcing Ray Gun Show at the Judson Gallery

1960

Medium
Pastel, wax crayon, typewriter ink, and graphite pencil on paper; Pastel and wax crayon on paper (verso)
Dimensions
Sheet (sight): 8 3/8 × 10 3/4 in. (21.3 × 27.3 cm)
Accession number
99.114a-b
Acquired
1999
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Evelyn and Leonard Lauder Fund for the Acquisition of Master Drawings and the Drawing Committee
Reproduction credit
© Claes Oldenburg
Department
collection

About this work

Claes Oldenburg, Suggested Design for a Brochure Announcing Ray Gun Show at the Judson Gallery, 1960. Pastel, wax crayon, typewriter ink, and graphite pencil on paper; Pastel and wax crayon on paper (verso), sheet (sight): 8 3/8 × 10 3/4 in. (21.3 × 27.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Evelyn and Leonard Lauder Fund for the Acquisition of Master Drawings and the Drawing Committee 99.114a-b. © Claes Oldenburg

Exhibitions featuring the artist

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