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Claes Oldenburg

Arched Soft Screw as Building, 1976

Not on View

series Title

The Soft Screw

Medium

lithograph in black on Roll Arches wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 171.45 × 114.3 cm (67 1/2 × 45 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gemini G.E.L. and the Artist

Catalogue Raisonné

Axsom & Platzker 1997, no. 146

Accession Number

1981.5.130

Artists / Makers

Claes Oldenburg (artist) American, born Sweden, 1929 - 2022

Charles Ritt (printer) American, active late 20th century

Anthony Zepeda (printer) American, active late 20th century

Gemini G.E.L. (publisher)

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: Gem I; lower right in graphite: Oldenburg; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: CO75-755

Marks and Labels

Provenance

Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, California; acquired 1981 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Gemini G.E.L.

Exhibition History

1990: Gemini G.E.L.: American Master Prints, Glasgow Print Studio, Scotland, 1990.

1992: Master Prints from Gemini G.E.L., National Lending Service, Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, Georgia; Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa; Midland Center for the Arts, Texas; Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia; Wichita Art Museum, Kansas; Art Institute for the Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas; Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida; Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana; Augustana College Art Gallery, Rock Island, Illinois; St. John’s Museum of Art, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1992-1997

Bibliography

1966: Gemini G.E.L. Sequence List. Los Angeles, California: Gemini G.E.L., unpublished, no. 703.

1997: Axsom, Richard H., and David Platzker. Printed Stuff: Prints, Posters, and Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1958-1996. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997, p. 285, no. 146.

2011: Ritchie, Charles. Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonné. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2011, no. 38.42. http://www.nga.gov/gemini