Architectural sketch showing a large gray dome wash, a vertical black column, and green smudge.

Drawings

Study for a Sculpture in the Form of a Vacuum Cleaner

1964

Medium
Graphite, crayon, pen and ink, and watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Sheet (sight): 23 11/16 × 18 1/16 in. (60.2 × 45.9 cm) Mount (board, sight): 23 11/16 × 18 1/8 × 1/8 in. (60.2 × 46 × 0.3 cm)
Accession number
2002.17
Acquired
2002
Credit line
Gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President
Reproduction credit
© Claes Oldenburg
Department
collection

About this work

Claes Oldenburg, Study for a Sculpture in the Form of a Vacuum Cleaner, 1964. Graphite, crayon, pen and ink, and watercolor on paper, sheet (sight): 23 11/16 × 18 1/16 in. (60.2 × 45.9 cm) Mount (board, sight): 23 11/16 × 18 1/8 × 1/8 in. (60.2 × 46 × 0.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President 2002.17. © Claes Oldenburg

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