Scissors as Monument
1968
Artist, American, born Sweden, 1929 - 2022
Printer
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
color lithograph on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the National Collection of Fine Arts)
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Dimensions
image (irregular): 75.57 × 50.8 cm (29 3/4 × 20 in.)
sheet: 108.43 × 71.12 cm (42 11/16 × 28 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.1067
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Catalogue Raisonné
Axsom & Platzker 1997, no. 49.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
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, p. 117, no. 49.1.
Inscriptions
text on plate: Opening May 1968 / National Collection of Fine Arts / Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. / Scissors Obelisk Monument by Claes Oldenburg / © 1968 H K L Ltd.
Wikidata ID
Q77012411