In the mid-1960s, Claes Oldenburg created a series of drawings that were proposals for colossal monuments around New York City. In them, baked potatoes, teddy bears, and ice cream cones took over plazas and major intersections. The plans were never realized, however, because they were too impractical. In the proposals, Oldenburg hyper-monumentalized everyday items. In this drawing, the artist, frustrated with the subject, imagined what a baked potato thrown against the Plaza Hotel might look like.