© Claes Oldenburg
Currently not on view
B Tree (For Alfred Barr),
1969
Claes Oldenburg, 1929–2022; born Stockholm, Sweden; died New York, NY; active New York
x1988-142
Information
Title
B Tree (For Alfred Barr)
Dates
1969
Maker
Medium
Graphite with blue pencil and white gouache
Dimensions
73.5 x 58.3 cm (28 15/16 x 22 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Margaret Scolari Barr
Object Number
x1988-142
Signatures
Signed and dated in graphite, bottom right: CO 69
Inscription
in graphite, bottom left: B-Tree
Culture
Materials
Subject
Commissioned (directly) from the artist by seven donors (names in file) as a gift to Alfred H. Barr, Class of 1922;
Alfred H. Barr Jr., Class of 1922, New York; Margaret Scolari Barr, New York
- Barbara Haskell, Claes Oldenburg: object into monument, (Pasadena, CA: Pasadena Art Museum, 1971)., no. 148
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1988," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 48, no. 1 (1989): p. 35-59., p. 38 (illus.)
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 212, cat. no. 53; p. 213 (illus.); p. 340, checklist no. 861
- Johanna Burton et al., Pop art: contemporary perspectives, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT: distributed by Yale University Press, 2007), p. 137 (illus.)
