Profile Airflow
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- Title
Profile Airflow
- Artist
Claes Oldenburg (American, born Sweden, active United States, born 1929)
- Date
1969
- Medium
molded polyurethane over lithograph
- Edition
62/75
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
31 7/8 in x 63 7/8 in x 2 1/2 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
signature/maker's mark: LR "Oldenburg '69"
inscription: BC "Profile Airflow"
- Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary Art
- Category
Prints
- Object Type
sculpture
planographic print
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Gift of Karen and Harry Groth
- Accession Number
71.63
- Copyright
© Claes Oldenburg/Coosje Van Bruggen
- Terms
Beginning in 1965, Claes Oldenburg created a series of works relating to the Chrysler Airflow he recalled from his childhood. For Oldenburg, the automobile is also a surrogate for the human body and an icon of contemporary culture. Here, he updates the modern form of the 1935 automobile with the plastics technology of the sixties.
- Exhibitions
1996 Signs of the Times Portland Art Museum
