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Claes Oldenburg

[Swedish-born American Pop Sculptor, born in 1929]

• Relationships: Collaborator of Coosje van Bruggen.
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Original works by Claes Oldenburg available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Home Page:
Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen

 
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
Stake Hitch, 1984

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Claes Oldenburg

Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Knife Ship I, 1985
Soft Shuttlecock, 1995

Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Claes Oldenburg at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Oldenburg and van Bruggen on the Roof

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
18 works by Claes Oldenburg online

Claes Oldenburg at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
17 works by Claes Oldenburg

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2 works by Oldenburg

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Works from the Kenneth Tyler Collection of international prints

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
5 works

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Shuttlecocks, 1994 (Zoom)

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Ice Cream Being Tasted, 1964

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Wedding Souvenir, 1966

Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
An Alternate Proposal for the AMAM, Oberlin, Ohio, drawing

Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Soft Toaster

Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Giant Three-Way Plug

Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
Chicago Stuffed with Numbers

Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy

Chinati Foundation
Monument to the Last Horse

Colby College Museum of Art, Maine   NEW!
Typewriter Eraser, 1977

Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina   NEW!
Rolling Collar and Tie

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
Scissors as Monument

Freud Museum, London, UK
Icons in a Smoke-filled Room, print, 1996

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
7-Up, 1961

Claes Oldenburg in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin   NEW!

Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
Saw

Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
Half tire with deflated tube

Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Plantoir (work #16; click "next" three times to page down to it)

Mint Museum of Art, North Carolina
Spoon Pier

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas

Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy (in Italian)  

Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (MART), Italy
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Sculpture in the Form of a Fried Egg

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Calico Bunnies, 1997

Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas

Claes Oldenburg at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Gemini G.E.L. prints

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Soft Screw, 1976

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Flying Pizza, 1964

Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri   NEW!

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  
Potato Chips in Bags

Sioux City Art Center, Iowa
Crusoe Umbrella, 1976

Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago

Claes Oldenburg at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Claes Oldenburg at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
Several documents related to Claes Oldenburg's art

Tate Gallery, London, UK

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Apple Core, 1992

Turman Gallery at Indiana State University

University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville
Split Button Model
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Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Leaning Fork with Meatball and Spaghetti

Walker Art Center, Minnesota

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
The Black Girdle, 1961

Wichita State University Outdoor Sculpture Collection, Kansas
Inverted Q (TP)

 
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Claes Oldenburg at Insecula

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Blueberry Pie
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Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
3 works documented

PBase Photo Sharing
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University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

USC Annenberg School for Communication

William Allen's Image Archive
Plug, from the St. Louis Art Museum

 
Web Sites About the Artist:
Claes Oldenburg: Printed Stuff

 
Other Web Sites:
Art at the University of Pennsylvania

Art Collection of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Virginia
Bat Spinning at the Speed of Light, 1975

Art Museum Image Consortium
Spoonbridge and Cherry

ArtsNet Minnesota
Spoonbridge and Cherry, 1985-88

ArtsNet Minnesota
Spoonbridge and Cherry, 1985-88

Los Angeles Police Department, Art Theft Detail   NEW!
Shirt with Objects on a Chair

Nebraska Statewide Interactive

Ohio Outdoor Sculpture Inventory

PBS
Torn Notebook

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Claes Oldenburg
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

Artcyclopedia
Clothespin, Cor-Ten and stainless steel sculpture, 1976

Artnet Magazine
Shuttlecocks

Salon Magazine
"Size Matters," article by Douglas Cruickshank

 
Multimedia:
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
"Meet the Artist" series with video clips

Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Several interviews with the artist (RealAudio format)

  
 
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Scissors as Monument, 1968
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Symbolic Self-Portrait with 'Equals', 1971
Symbolic Self-Portrait with 'Equals', 1971

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