Architecture at the Allen: Real and Imagined

Exhibition Website

Jul 19 2017 - Dec 23 2017

Over the last 100 years, the original museum building designed by Cass Gilbert has changed in ways both subtle and substantial. This centennial exhibition presents three works—an architectural drawing by Gilbert, a watercolor by the late Oberlin alumnus and professor Paul Arnold, and an etching and aquatint by Claes Oldenburg—that alternately prefigure, document, and reimagine interior and exterior features of the Allen. Their renderings transform the building—an otherwise static, monumental repository—into an object as dynamic as the art contained within it. 

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.         

  • Works on Paper
  • American
  • 20th Century
  • Architecture
  • Cass Gilbert
  • Paul Arnold
  • Claes Oldenburg

Exhibition Venues & Dates