A large open safety pin with a red clasp leaning and touching a flat surface.

Drawings

Dream Pin

1998

Medium: Graphite, colored pencil and pastel on paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 40 × 30 3/16 in. (101.6 × 76.7 cm)
Accession number: 2001.209
Acquired: 2001
Credit line: Gift of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Reproduction credit: © Claes Oldenburg
Department: collection

About this work

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Dream Pin, 1998. Graphite, colored pencil and pastel on paper, sheet: 40 × 30 3/16 in. (101.6 × 76.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen 2001.209. © 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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