Butt for Gantt
started 1990, published 1991
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View on museum website →Medium
color lithograph on Arches 88 wove paper
Dimensions
image: 25.56 × 25.56 cm (10 1/16 × 10 1/16 in.) sheet: 48.3 × 45.7 cm (19 × 18 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gemini G.E.L. and the Artist, in honor of Andrew Robison
Accession Number
2016.146.6
About the Artist
Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg, born January 28, 1929, in Stockholm, Sweden, to diplomat Gösta Oldenburg and Sigrid Elisabeth Lindforss, spent much of his childhood abroad before his family settled in Chicago in 1936, where his father served as Swedish consul general. He attended the Latin School of Chicago, then studied literature and art history at Yale University from 1946 to 1950, followed by classes at the ...