A conceptual sketch of a double-arched bridge with ribbed curved supports spanning a river.

Prints

Study for Double Screwarch Bridge

1981

Medium
Etching and aquatint with watercolor, graphite pencil, and fiber-tipped pen
Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 31 5/8 × 57 1/2 in. (80.3 × 146.1 cm) Plate: 23 1/16 × 50 3/8 in. (58.6 × 128 cm)
Accession number
82.15
Acquired
1982
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Wilfred P. and Rose J. Cohen Purchase Fund
Reproduction credit
© Claes Oldenburg
Edition
TP 1/9 | Second state, 12 APs, BAT, 2 EPs, PP, 2 WPs, Museum Boymans-van Beunigaen Proof
Publication
Printed by Aeropress, Inc.; published by Multiples, Inc.
Department
collection

About this work

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Study for Double Screwarch Bridge, 1981. Etching and aquatint with watercolor, graphite pencil, and fiber-tipped pen, sheet (Irregular): 31 5/8 × 57 1/2 in. (80.3 × 146.1 cm) Plate: 23 1/16 × 50 3/8 in. (58.6 × 128 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Wilfred P. and Rose J. Cohen Purchase Fund 82.15. © Claes Oldenburg

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