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Typewriter Eraser

Typewriter Eraser

Claes Oldenburg

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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