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New Media—New Forms in Painting and Sculpture

1960

Claes Oldenburg

Associated Names

Claes Oldenburg

Artist, American, born Sweden, 1929 - 2022

Martha Jackson Gallery

Publisher

The image depicts an irregular, oval-shaped form with jagged edges and intersecting lines. It features black, thick lines resembling a network or web on top of a base filled with newspaper text. The composition gives the impression of a crumpled fabric or weathered rock with embedded text, creating a texture reminiscent of a newspaper collage. The word "NEWSPAPER" is visible within the lines, linking the image to printed media. The grayscale palette and ink drips at the bottom enhance the abstract quality of the piece.

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Artwork overview

Medium

offset lithograph in black on wove paper
Credit Line

Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation
Dimensions

sheet: 57.47 × 45.09 cm (22 5/8 × 17 3/4 in.)
Accession Number

2008.115.235
Catalogue Raisonné

Axsom & Platzker 1997, no. 8

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Reba and Dave Williams, Greenwich, Connecticut; acquired 2008 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Dave H. and Reba W. Williams

Bibliography

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, pp. 63-54, no. 8.

Inscriptions

lower left on plate: CO.; lower left in graphite: 2/40 Claes Oldenburg

Wikidata ID

Q76440433

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