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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1996.15
People
Claes Oldenburg, American (Stockholm, Sweden 1929 - 2022 New York, New York)
Title
Store Poster with Cake, Pie, and Bread; verso: Muffin and Cherry Pie
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1961
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305402

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Monotype on off-white wove paper; verso: watercolor, oil pastel(?), and graphite
Technique
Monotype
Dimensions
50.6 × 65.9 cm (19 15/16 × 25 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on recto, l.r., in graphite: CO 61
  • inscription: "lettering" on recto: MY STORE; PIE $150; LOAF $125; cake; 107 E 2ND

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private Collector. [Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York]. [G. W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, New York], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1996.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Copyright
© Claes Oldenburg
Accession Year
1996
Object Number
1996.15
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 1995-96, Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, Summer 1997), vol. V, no. 3, p. 16, ill.
  • Modern Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan, 1999), cat. no. 79, repr. (both sides in color)
  • James Harper, Verso: The Flip Side of Master Drawings, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2001), cat. no. 30, repr. (recto and verso [verso in color]), p. 18
  • Susan Dackerman, ed., Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2015), pp. 40-42, cat. 3, ill. (color)
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. as pl. 67 on p. 138 (verso)

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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