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Claes Oldenburg Works Online
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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 Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Claes Oldenburg at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
4 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many works online
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
2 works online
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
2 works online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Giant Soft Fan—Ghost Version, 1967
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
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
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Claes Oldenburg at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Information about a 2009 exhibition
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
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
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
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Balzac Pétanque, 2002
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Indiana State University Art Collection
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
The Soap at Baton Rouge
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "O"
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin
Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
Saw
Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
Half tire with deflated tube
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Geometric Mouse II, cor-ten steel and aluminum sculpture, 1969-70
Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Plantoir (work #16; click "next" three times to page down to it)
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
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
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Works from the Gemini G.E.L. prints online catalogue raisonné
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Tea Pot, 1975
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Flying Pizza, 1964
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
Faucet (Lake Union, Seattle, Washington)
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
Peace Portfolio: Injun Poster
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch)
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
Serralves Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Click "O" for "Oldenberg"; see another work under "C" for "Claes Oldenburg + Coosje van Bruggen"
Sioux City Art Center, Iowa
Crusoe Umbrella, 1976
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Claes Oldenburg at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
Several documents related to Claes Oldenburg's art
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Apple Core, 1992
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville
Split Button Model
(Click on "thumbnails")
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Clothespin Ten Foot, 1974
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Leaning Fork with Meatball and Spaghetti
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
Wichita State University Outdoor Sculpture Collection, Kansas
Inverted Q (TP)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
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
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
USC Annenberg School for Communication
William Allen's Image Archive
Plug, from the St. Louis Art Museum
Additional Image Search Tools:
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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 100-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
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
4 lithographs online
Art + Auction Magazine
Street Ray Guns, 1959-60
Artnet Magazine
Shuttlecocks
Frieze Magazine
"Taking stock -- Claes Oldenburg's 'The Store'"
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)
"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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