Proposal for A Colossal Structure In the Form of A Sink Faucet - For Lake Union, Seattle
1972
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