Woman Figure with Medusa Ornaments

Description

Renowned for sculptures depicting absurdly large, displaced, and decontextualized everyday objects—such as Chicago’s Batcolumn (installed at 600 West Madison Street), Oldenburg earned his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1954. Radically different from his iconic sculptures in subject matter, this drawing showcases the artist’s considerable graphic skills and powers of invention.

Woman Figure with Medusa Ornaments

Claes Oldenburg

1967

Accession Number

28697

Medium

Graphite with smudging on ivory wove paper, laid down on Bristol board

Dimensions

76.2 × 56.8 cm (30 × 22 3/8 in.)

Classification

graphite

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Dr. Eugene A. Solow