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A metal flashlight lies on a wet wooden floor with water pooling and flowing from its lens.

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Proposal for a Building in the form of a Colossal Flashlight in place of the Hoover Dam, Nevada

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

1982

Medium
Graphite pencil, colored pencil and watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 40 1/16 × 30 in. (101.8 × 76.2 cm)
Accession number
2004.40
Acquired
2004
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from Leonard A. Lauder in honor of Janie C. Lee
Reproduction credit
© Claes Oldenburg
Department
collection

About this work

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Proposal for a Building in the form of a Colossal Flashlight in place of the Hoover Dam, Nevada, 1982. Graphite pencil, colored pencil and watercolor on paper, sheet: 40 1/16 × 30 in. (101.8 × 76.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Leonard A. Lauder in honor of Janie C. Lee 2004.40. © Claes Oldenburg

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