Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929)
Sculpture in the Form of a Trowel Stuck in the Ground – Model
lacquer on wood, in two parts
overall: 44 x 30 x 24 1/8 in. (111.8 x 76.2 x 61.3 cm.)
Executed in 1969-1970.
Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929)
Sculpture in the Form of a Trowel Stuck in the Ground – Model
lacquer on wood, in two parts
overall: 44 x 30 x 24 1/8 in. (111.8 x 76.2 x 61.3 cm.)
Executed in 1969-1970.
Oberlin College, Ohio, acquired directly from the artist Gilman Paper Company, Gilman, Vermont Their sale; Christie's, New York, 5 May 1987, lot 39 Marcia and Frederick Weisman, Los Angeles By descent from the above to the late owner
P. Shea, ed., Picasso to Pop: The Richard Weisman Collection, New York, 2003, pp. 96-97, no. 56 (illustrated).
Pasadena Art Museum; University of California, Berkeley, University Art Museum; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts; Fort Worth Art Center Museum; Des Moines Art Center and The Art Institute of Chicago, Claes Oldenburg: Object Into Monument, December 1971-February 1973, p. 125 (illustrated). New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Art at Work: Recent Art from Corporate Collections, March-April 1978, no. 32. Pullman, Washington State University Museum of Art, Art & Context: The '50s and '60s, September-December 2006, pp. 76-77 (illustrated).
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