1996.15: Store Poster with Cake, Pie, and Bread; verso: Muffin and Cherry Pie

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1996.15

People

Claes Oldenburg, American (Stockholm, Sweden 1929 - 2022 New York, New York)

Title

Store Poster with Cake, Pie, and Bread; verso: Muffin and Cherry Pie

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1961

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305402

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Monotype on off-white wove paper; verso: watercolor, oil pastel(?), and graphite

Technique

Monotype

Dimensions

50.6 × 65.9 cm (19 15/16 × 25 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: on recto, l.r., in graphite: CO 61
• inscription: "lettering" on recto: MY STORE; PIE $150; LOAF $125; cake; 107 E 2ND

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Private Collector. [Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York]. [G. W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, New York], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1996.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund

Copyright

© Claes Oldenburg

Accession Year

1996

Object Number

1996.15

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 1995-96, Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, Summer 1997), vol. V, no. 3, p. 16, ill.
• Modern Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan, 1999), cat. no. 79, repr. (both sides in color)
• James Harper, Verso: The Flip Side of Master Drawings, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2001), cat. no. 30, repr. (recto and verso [verso in color]), p. 18
• Susan Dackerman, ed., Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2015), pp. 40-42, cat. 3, ill. (color)
• Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. as pl. 67 on p. 138 (verso)

Exhibition History

• Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000
• Verso: The Flip Side of Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/19/2001 - 08/12/2001
• Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) HAA175w Pop Art, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 01/15/2010 - 03/14/2010
• Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/03/2015 - 01/03/2016; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, 02/13/2016 - 04/13/2016
• American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023

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