Typewriter Eraser

started 1969, published 1970

Claes Oldenburg

Artist, American, born Sweden, 1929 - 2022

Charles Ritt

Printer, American, active late 20th century

Andrew Vlady

Printer, American, active late 20th century

Richard Wilke

Printer, American, active late 20th century

Gemini G.E.L.

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color lithograph on Rives BFK wove paper

  • Credit Line

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

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 31.1 x 24.1 cm (12 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.74.182

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Axsom & Platzker 1997, no. 65

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, California; acquired 1991 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2006

  • The Art of Collaboration: Works from the National Gallery of Art's Gemini G.E.L. Archive, Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland, 2006-2007.

Bibliography

1966

  • Gemini G.E.L. Sequence List. Los Angeles, California: Gemini G.E.L., unpublished, no. 182.

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. 150, no. 65

2011

  • Ritchie, Charles. Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonné. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2011, no. 38.18. http://www.nga.gov/gemini

Inscriptions

upper center in graphite: Eraser; lower left in graphite: gem. I; lower right in graphite: CO 70; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: CO70-310

Markings

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

Wikidata ID

Q74889793

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