Arched Soft Screw as Building

started 1975, published 1976

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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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph on Roll Arches wove paper

  • Credit Line

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

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession

    1981.5.130

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Axsom & Platzker 1997, no. 146

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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 Los Angeles, California: Gemini G.E.L., unpublished, no. 703.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

Inscriptions

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

Markings

embossed lower right: © 1976 Claes Oldenburg [Gemini G.E.L.]; stamped lower left verso in gray ink: Gemini G.E.L. / Los Angeles, Calif.

Wikidata ID

Q74035567

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