Woman Figure with Medusa Ornaments
Claes Oldenburg
1967
- Medium
- Graphite with smudging on ivory wove paper, laid down on Bristol board
- Dimensions
- 76.2 × 56.8 cm (30 × 22 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- graphite
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
drawings (visual works)graphitePop Artprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
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.
