Claes Oldenburg
Ray Gun

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Artist Claes Oldenburg 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

Not on view

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Department

Prints and Drawings

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Acquisitions of the Last Five Years: Selections of Modern and Contemporary Art," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Upper Brown Pavilion, July 15—October 15, 2005.

"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 (?)

Recto: Initialed in graphite, right bottom edge: C O / 59

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