Proposal for a Cathedral in the Form of a Sink Faucet for Lake Union, Seattle, Washington
Date1972
Artist
Claes Oldenburg
(American sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker, 1929–2022)
MediumLithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 32 1/4 × 24 1/2 in. (81.9 × 62.2 cm)
sheet: 34 3/4 × 32 1/8 in. (88.3 × 81.6 cm)
sheet: 34 3/4 × 32 1/8 in. (88.3 × 81.6 cm)
Credit LineSpecial Purchase Fund, 1975
Object number1975-12
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextClaes Oldenburg’s print shows a monumental water faucet proposed by the artist for a fantastic but specific public monument: a Cathedral in the Form of a Colossal Faucet, for Lake Union, Seattle. Pop art is a style in which the artist explores readily available images found in consumer culture in new and different ways. Here, Oldenburg manipulates the size of an ordinary kitchen faucet to create a proposal for an unlikely ecclesiastical structure.
Stanley Massey Arthurs
1925
