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Plate 22 (from Portfolio "Notes in Hand")
Artist
Claes Oldenburg
(American, 1929 - 2022)
Date1972
Mediumphoto offset lithograph
Dimensionsimage: 5 3/4 × 4 1/8 in. (14.6 × 10.5 cm)
sheet: 9 7/8 × 7 7/8 in. (25.1 × 20 cm)
mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
sheet: 9 7/8 × 7 7/8 in. (25.1 × 20 cm)
mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Charlotte Collins from the Charles and Charlotte Collins Collection
Exhibition History"A Passion for Collecting: Prints of the 1960s and '70s from the Collins Collection," KIA Galleries 2&5 (Nov. 13, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Charles H. MacNider Museum of Art, Mason City, IA (June 24 - August 20, 2016).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Sardoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA (August 25 - November 1, 2020).
Label TextClaes Oldenburg’s focus on household objects and icons of American popular culture, such as Mickey Mouse, allies him with the Pop Art movement. Oldenburg is widely recognized today for humorously re-imagining commonplace objects as sculptures of monumental size and in unconventional colors and materials. Plate 22 offers a glimpse of Oldenburg at work, toying with a form’s conventional shape, and even accentuating the famous mouse’s cartoonish charm.
