Blue Saxophone
Claes Thure Oldenburg, American, 1929 - 2022
1992
Crayon and watercolor on paper
Sheet: 14 5/8 × 11 15/16 in. (37.1 × 30.3 cm)
Frame: 22 3/8 × 19 1/2 in. (56.8 × 49.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Hugh J. Freund, Class of 1967
© Claes Oldenburg
W.2001.43.1
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Initialled and dated, in graphite, lower left: CO / '92
Course History
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II,III, Jack Wilson, Fall 2022
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 43, ill. p. 43, fig. 47.
Provenance
Pace Gallery, New York; sold to Hugh J. Freund; given to present collection, 2001.
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