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National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. - opening May 1968 – Antique Print

National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. - opening May 1968, 1968 — vintage poster
National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. - opening May 1968, 1968. Vintage poster from the Washington DC collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. - opening May 1968, preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. - opening May 1968

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A color poster for a May 1968 opening at the National Collection of Fine Arts, one of the Smithsonian's Washington museums, features Claes Oldenburg's scissors obelisk, a proposed monument that turns a pair of open shears into a towering upright form. Oldenburg, a Pop artist born in 1929, was known in the 1960s for imagining oversized everyday objects as public sculpture, and his monument drawings and models often blended humor with a serious comment on urban space and monuments. The record's details are based on an older caption card and have not been fully verified, but the poster reflects the playful, large-scale ambition of Oldenburg's work from that period.

Created / published1968
Medium1 print (poster) : color ; 109 x 70 cm.
NotesPicture caption: Scissors obelisk monument by Claes Oldenburg. Color poster by Claes Oldenburg, 1929- . Promotional goal: U.S. K93. 1968. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: I. Smithsonian Institution. National Collection of Fine Arts.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan988 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-172713

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