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
Not on view
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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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Sugar lift and spitbite aquatint, soft and hard ground etching in colors, printed chine collé on beige paper, on wove paper, edition 40/50
2005.1193
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2001
Collage of cut printed paper, paper tags and folders, and tracing paper with monotype, graphite, colored pencil, acrylic paint, etching and aquatint, watercolor, charcoal, ink, and ballpoint pen on cut board
2001.765
Claes Oldenburg
1975
Offset lithograph in colors on paper, artist's proof 20/25
91.1882
