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Photo: Tom Little.
63 Objects Taken Out of My Son's Mouth
Photo: Tom Little.

63 Objects Taken Out of My Son's Mouth

Artist (British American, born 1977)
Date2011-2012
MediumAcorn, bolt, bubblegum, buttons, carbon paper, chalk, Christmas decoration, cigarette butt, coins (GBP, USD, EURO), cotton reel, holly leaf, little wooden man, sharp metal pieces, metro ticket, nuts, plastic "O", polystyrene, rat poison (missing), seeds, slide, small rocks, specimen vial, sponge animal, sticks, teabag, wire caps, and wooden block
Dimensionslaid out: 1 × 34 × 34 in. (2.5 × 86.4 × 86.4 cm)
pedestal top: 40 × 40 in. (101.6 × 101.6 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2021.37
Accession number 2021.37
On View
Not on view
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Provenancepurchased by GAE LLC, Bentonville, AR, 2014 (in conjunction with the 2014 Crystal Bridges exhibition State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now); transferred to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2021
Image courtesy of Phillips de Pury & Company
Claes Oldenburg
1978
Photography by Edward C. Robison III
Robert Rauschenberg
1957