Artist
Claes Oldenburg (American, Swedish, 1929–2022)American, Swedish, 1929–2022
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Ray Gun
Date1959
PlaceUnited States
MediumMonotype on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 13 13/16 × 12 7/8 in. (35.1 × 32.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accession Endowment Fund
Object number2001.401
Non exposé
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Department
Prints and DrawingsObject Type
"Playing with Process: Explorations in Experimental Printmaking," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 19—September 8, 2013.
"Familiar to the Eye," The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Oct. 28, 2020 – July 27, 2021. [Inaugural Installation: Kinder Building 207: No Catalog]
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Initialed in graphite, right bottom edge: C O / 59
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, lower center: PW# 31421
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, center bottom edge: 6706
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, right bottom edge: 7673 / #115 LBek(?) / 1 I/V TV Gray [illegible]. Parssepeutact (?)
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, lower center: PW# 31421
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, center bottom edge: 6706
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, right bottom edge: 7673 / #115 LBek(?) / 1 I/V TV Gray [illegible]. Parssepeutact (?)
Recto: Initialed in graphite, right bottom edge: C O / 59
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1975
Offset lithograph in colors on paper, artist's proof 20/25
91.1882
