On View
- Artist
- Claes Oldenburg
(American, b. Sweden, 1929 – 2022) - Title
- Typewriter Eraser
- Date
- 1977
- Medium
- Concrete, aluminum, stainless steel, and paint
- Dimensions
- 32 x 35 x 23 in. overall
- Credit
- Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection
- Accession No.
- 2012.54.44.11
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Geography
- United States
Related
After 1977, sold by Leo Castelli Gallery (New York, NY) to Shaindy Fenton (Fort Worth, TX); before 1990, sold to a private collector (Dallas, TX); 27 February 1990, sold via auction (lot 208) at Sotheby’s (New York, NY) to Terese and Alvin S. Lane; 2008, deposited on long-term loan to the Chazen Museum of Art; 2012, bequeathed to the Chazen Museum of Art
- Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection: Twentieth-Century Sculpture and Sculptors' Works on Paper." Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1995. pp. 143, front cover, cat. no. 44.11
- Chazen Museum of Art. "Artscene." Vol. 25, No. 1, January-June 2008 p. 4
- Baker, D. Frederick, "A University Collects: The Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin," in Antiques & Fine Art Magazine (Autumn/Winter 2013) vol. XII, issue 6 :184-193. p. 189, no. 7
- Modernist Sculpture: The Terese & Alvin S. Lane Collection: Chazen Museum of Art, 7/19/2008–9/28/2008
- Lane Collection, The: Twentieth-Century Sculpture and Sculptors' Works on Paper: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 9/30/1995–12/3/1995
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