Proposal for A Colossal Structure In the Form of A Sink Faucet - For Lake Union, Seattle

1972

American, 1929 - 2022

Since the late 1950s, Oldenburg was captivated by our obsessive relationship to objects. He famously turned familiar household items into slumping sculptures that seemed more like living bodies than inanimate objects. He late began to imagine everyday objects on a grand scale as public monuments. The colossal sink faucet proposed for Lake Union in Seattle was never realized but many other proposals were turned into public monuments around the world.

Offset color lithograph

27 3/4 x 21 3/4 in. (70.5 x 55.3 cm)

Gift of the Contemporary Art Council of the Seattle Art Museum

72.79

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Pop Departures. Oct. 9, 2014 - Jan. 11, 2015. Text by Catharina Manchanda, et al. No cat. no., p. 102, not reproduced.

Published ReferencesUpchurch, Michael. "SAM's Pop Art show full of snap and crackle--and Warhol." The Seattle Times, October 9, 2014.

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