Claes Oldenburg

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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

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Knife Slicing Through Wall, 1986
Wood painted with enamel; and plasterboard or cardboard blade:
4 ft. 10 in. x 12 ft. 3 in. (1.47 x 3.66 x .08 m);
two wall sections, each 8 ft. x 3 ft. 10 in. x 2 ft. 8 in. (2.44 x 1.17 x .81 m)
Installed at 817 Hillsdale Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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