Proposed Colossal Monument for Lower East Side: Ironing Board

Collection of Louise Ferrari (Houston); before 1969, acquired by Sidney Janis Gallery (New York, NY); by 1969, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Goodman (Toronto); 4 May 1974, sold via auction by Sotheby Parke Bernet (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. cat. no. 44.2
• Baro, Gene. "Claes Oldenburg Drawings and Prints." London: Chelsea House, 1969. pp. 160-161, 255, cat. no.216
• Johnson, Ellen H. "Claes Oldenburg." Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1971. p. 36, cat. no.23
• Oldenburg, Claes. "Proposal for Monuments and Buildings." Chicago: Big Table, 1969. pp. 52-53, pl. 7
• Rose, Barbara. "Claes Oldenburg." New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1969. cat. no.181
• Moderna Museet. "Claes Oldenburg Skulpturer Och Teckningar." Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 1966. illus. (n.p.)

• Lane Collection, The: Twentieth-Century Sculpture and Sculptors' Works on Paper: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 9/30/1995–12/3/1995
• New Dimensions in Drawing 1950-1980: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, The, 5/2/1981–9/6/1981
• Claes Oldenburg: Museum of Modern Art, The, 9/25/1969–11/23/1969
• Claes Oldenburg Skulpturer Och Teckningar: Moderna Museet, 9/17/1966–10/30/1966

• North America
• Drawings & Watercolors
• Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection

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