id: 151043
accession number: 1982.72
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.72
updated: 2023-03-11 20:51:19.359000
Postcard of the Spoon of the Ile St. Louis with Needles, 1979. Claes Thure Oldenburg (American, 1929–2022). Color etching and aquatint; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden Fund 1982.72 © Claes Thure Oldenburg
title: Postcard of the Spoon of the Ile St. Louis with Needles
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creation date: 1979
creation date earliest: 1979
creation date latest: 1979
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creditline: Delia E. Holden Fund
copyright: © Claes Thure Oldenburg
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: color etching and aquatint
department: Prints
collection: PR - Etching
type: Print
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CREATORS
* Claes Thure Oldenburg (American, 1929–2022) - artist
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Year in Review for 1982
opening date: 1983-01-05T05:00:00
The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).
title: Printing in Color
opening date: 1985-09-10T04:00:00
Printing in Color. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-November 17, 1985).
title: Changing Dimensions: Works on Paper by Sculptors
opening date: 1995-11-22T05:00:00
Changing Dimensions: Works on Paper by Sculptors. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1995-January 24, 1996).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Cleveland Museum of Art, 1995-1996: Changing Dimensions: Works on Paper by Sculptors: November 22, 1995-January 24, 1996, no cat.
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PROVENANCE
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"Style in drawing is the recreation in shorthand and graph of the terms of one's physical vision...Of course the temperament as instrumented by the hand...affects the drawings. In my case: instantaneous, impulsive..."
Oldenburg is famous for his sculptures, which are objects or parts of the body increased to colossal scale and set in landscape or urban environments. Although monumental Oldenburg sculptures of everyday objects exist, like the Free Stamp in Cleveland, of the Clothespin in Philadelphia, Postcard of the Spoon of the Ile St. Louis with Needles is a fantasy---an idea for a sculpture that can never be made.
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