Renowned Art
Claes Oldenburg Gallery     Prints.     Full biography.
Claes Oldenburg (1929 - )
Claes Oldenburg was born in Stockholm. He studied at Yale and the Art Institute of Chicago. He established himself in the early 1960s with a series of installations and performances on New York's Lower East Side. He installed Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks on the Yale campus in 1969, which became a controversial focus for student protest, and Clothespin in downtown Philadelphia in 1976. His recent work, with Coosje van Bruggen, is the 144-foot-long, 64-foot-high Cupid's Span for Rincon Park on the Embarcadero in San Francisco.
Lipstick (Ascending)
Clothespin
Pool Balls
Knife Ship
Spoonbridge
Slicing
Lipsticks

Viewer

Clothespin, 1976
Cor-Ten and stainless steels
45 ft. x 12 ft. 3 in. x 4 ft. 6 in. (13.7 x 3.7 x 1.4 m)
Centre Square Plaza, Fifteenth and Market streets, Philadelphia
Photo by Attilio Maranzano

Fabricated by Lippincott, Inc., North Haven, Connecticut. Engineer: J. Robert Jennings
Commissioned May 1974 by Jack Wolgin, through the Redevelopment Authority's Fine Arts Program
Installed June 25, 1976
Inaugurated July 1, 1976
Comments about Oldenburg sorted by date.

Author Date Subject
No messages found with your specifications.

All artists, with thumbnail & description, sorted: Alphabetically  |  By birth year

All artists, no thumbnail or description, sorted: Alphabetically  |  By birth year

Artists born in the  13th  14th  15th  16th  17th  18th  19th  20th  Century
Female artists, sorted: Alphabetically  |  By birth year
A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z  
   Artists  |  Forums  |  Contact  |  Links  |  Digital Consciousness  |  Home