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Original works by Claes Oldenburg available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
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Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Claes Oldenburg
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
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
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Typewriter Eraser, 1977
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
Rolling Collar and Tie
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Stake Hitch, 1984
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
Indiana State University Art Collection NEW!
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "O"
Claes Oldenburg in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin
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) 
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
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Flying Pizza, 1964
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida NEW!
Faucet (Lake Union, Seattle, Washington)
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida NEW!
Peace Portfolio: Injun Poster
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch) NEW!
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Potato Chips in Bags
Seattle Art Museum
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
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville
Split Button Model
(Click on "thumbnails")
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 Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
Wichita State University Outdoor Sculpture Collection, Kansas
Inverted Q (TP)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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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
Miscellaneous Sites:
Art at the University of Pennsylvania
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
Shirt with Objects on a Chair
Nebraska Statewide Interactive
Ohio Outdoor Sculpture Inventory
PBS
Torn Notebook
Articles and Reference Sites:
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
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
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
Art & Antiques Magazine
"Creativity Loves Company"
Artcyclopedia
Clothespin, Cor-Ten and stainless steel sculpture, 1976
Artnet Magazine
Shuttlecocks
Frieze Magazine
"Taking stock -- Claes Oldenburg's 'The Store'"
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
Salon Magazine
"Size Matters," article by Douglas Cruickshank
Time Magazine
"Magician, Clown, Child", 1972 article by Robert Hughes
Multimedia:
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
"Meet the Artist" series with video clips
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Several interviews with the artist (RealAudio format)
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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Claes Oldenburg: Raw Notes
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Claes Oldenburg / Coosje Van Bruggen
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