Soft Alphabet
Soft Alphabet
Artist
Claes Oldenburg
(1929 - 2022)
Date1978
Medium41 sewn cotton, sand-filled bags in a wooden box
Dimensions29 1/4 x 22 1/4 x 2 3/4 in. (74.3 x 56.5 x 7 cm)
ClassificationsMixed Media
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2012.494
Signedverso, on underside of the box: Oldenburg 8/16
Accession number
2012.494
DescriptionPublished by Multiples, Inc., New YorkOn View
Not on viewMarkingsverso, on underside of the box, printed: The Soft Alphabet by Claes Oldenburg is an edition of sixteen with two proofs, each consisting of forty-one pieces including nineteen characters in a wooden box. The pieces are sewn in cotton cloth, filled with sand and brushed with talc. A drawing of the Soft Alphabet is silk-screened on the cover of the box.
2023
