Profile Airflow

started 1968, published 1969

Claes Oldenburg

Artist, American, born Sweden, 1929 - 2022

Richard Wilke

Edition Production, American, active late 20th century

Ron Adams

Edition Production, American, born 1934

Gemini G.E.L.

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    green molded polyurethane over lithograph in gray and black on Special Arjomari wove paper in aluminum frame

  • Credit Line

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

  • Dimensions

    overall (framed): 85.1 × 166.4 cm (33 1/2 × 65 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1981.5.70

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Axsom & Platzker 1997, no. 59


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1984

  • Gemini G.E.L.: Art and Collaboration, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Seattle Art Museum, Washington; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; Yonago City Museum, Japan; Machida City Museum of Graphics Art, Japan, 1984-1989, no. 14.

2016

  • Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, 2016-2017, no. 127.

Bibliography

1966

  • Gemini G.E.L. Sequence List. Los Angeles, California: Gemini G.E.L., unpublished, no. 178.

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. 141, no. 59.

2011

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

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite on paper: 2/75; lower center in graphite on paper: Profile Airflow; lower right in graphite on paper: Oldenburg 69;

Wikidata ID

Q63854577


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