Proposals for Monumental Buildings, 1965–69

…his series of drawings called Proposals for Monumental Buildings, 1965–69, Oldenburg drew ordinary things—fire hydrants, ice-cream bars, bananas—as though they were as big as skyscrapers. His pictures combined a virtuoso’s gift for drawing with a vision, at once celebratory and satirical, of the P.T. Barnum spirit of American life. Warhol…