"Typewriter Eraser: Scale X" by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
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Oldenburg is best known for his extremely large replicas of everyday objects. This large typewriter eraser can be found in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.
Waymark Code: WM4A92
Location: District of Columbia, United States
Date Posted: 07/28/2008
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The following information about the sculpture is from the National Gallery of Art's Website:
In the mid-1960s Claes Oldenburg began to make drawings of monuments based on common objects, such as a clothespin or a pair of scissors, challenging the notion that public monuments must commemorate historical figures or events. The artist's selection of discredited or obsolete objects extends to those remembered from childhood. As a youngster he enjoyed playing in his father's office with a typewriter eraser. In the late 1960s and 1970s he used the eraser as a source for drawings, prints, sculpture, and even a never-realized monument for New York City. This sculpture presents a giant falling eraser that has just alighted, the bristles of the brush turned upward in a graceful, dynamic gesture
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second version of this sculpture can be found in Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park.