A loose sketch of scissors cutting a draped blue fabric with handwritten notes beside it.

Drawings

Material and Scissors

1963

Medium
Ballpoint pen, watercolor, and graphite pencil on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 × 8 1/2 in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm) Mount (Irregular): 14 1/2 × 13 in. (36.8 × 33 cm)
Accession number
99.117
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, Material and Scissors, 1963. Ballpoint pen, watercolor, and graphite pencil on paper, sheet: 11 × 8 1/2 in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm) Mount (Irregular): 14 1/2 × 13 in. (36.8 × 33 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 99.117. © Claes Oldenburg

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