Study for a Sculpture in the Form of an Inverted Q: Above and Below Ground

Claes Oldenburg

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Caption

Claes Oldenburg American, born Sweden 1929–2022. Study for a Sculpture in the Form of an Inverted Q: Above and Below Ground, 1975. Etching and soft -ground etching, lithograph and offset, on paper, sheet: 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Susan Lorence, 87.42. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 87.42_bw.jpg)

Gallery

Not on view

Title

Study for a Sculpture in the Form of an Inverted Q: Above and Below Ground

Date

1975

Medium

Etching and soft -ground etching, lithograph and offset, on paper

Classification

Print

Dimensions

sheet: 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm)

Signatures

Signed lower right in pencil: "Oldenburg"

Inscriptions

Inscribed lower right in pencil: "75"; inscribed lower left: "A.P. XIX/XX"

Credit Line

Gift of Susan Lorence

Accession Number

87.42

Rights

© artist or artist's estate

The Brooklyn Museum holds a non-exclusive license to reproduce images of this work of art from the rights holder named here. The Museum does not warrant that the use of this work will not infringe on the rights of third parties. It is your responsibility to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions before copying, transmitting, or making other use of protected items beyond that allowed by "fair use," as such term is understood under the United States Copyright Act. For further information about copyright, we recommend resources at the United States Library of Congress, Cornell University, Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums, and Copyright Watch. For more information about the Museum's rights project, including how rights types are assigned, please see our blog posts on copyright. If you have any information regarding this work and rights to it, please contact copyright@brooklynmuseum.org. If you wish to contact the rights holder for this work, please email copyright@brooklynmuseum.org and we will assist if we can.

Have information?

Have information about an artwork? Contact us at

bkmcollections@brooklynmuseum.org.