Claes Oldenburg
1929–2022
Introduction
Claes Oldenburg studied literature and art history at Yale University and the Art Institute of Chicago. He quickly became involved in performance art after moving to New York and meeting many performance artists. By 1959, he had created drawings and collages of common objects and renderings of grotesque human figures. He created The Store in his studio, a performance space that re-created a neighborhood of shops that displayed goods that were made of plaster. He emerged as a leading Pop artist, combining consumer culture into his own sculptures. Oldenburg married artist Coosje van Bruggen in 1977. The two collaborated on many large-scale projects together and with architect Frank O. Gehry in the mid-1970s and early 1990s.
Country of birth
Sweden
Roles
Artist, painter, performance artist, sculptor, writer
ULAN identifier
500029735
Names
Claes Oldenburg, Claes Thure Oldenburg, Ḳlaʼes Oldenberg
Information from the Getty Research Institute's Union List of Artist Names ® (ULAN), made available under the ODC Attribution License. Accessed March 16, 2024.
123 works
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Notebook Page: Study for a Colossal Sculpture of a Woman's Legs, Walking, for Michigan Avenue, Chicago
1994 -
Notebook Page: Study for a Colossal Sculpture of a Woman's Legs, Running
1994 -
Saw / Tie
1994 -
Soft Pencil Sharpener
1989 -
Proposal for a Civic Monument in the Form of Two Windows
1982 -
Soft Screw Tumbling, #1
1976 -
Soft Screw Tumbling, #2
1976 -
Arch in the Form of a Screw, for Times Square NYC
1976 -
Colossal Screw in Landscape-Type 1
1976 -
Colossal Screw in Landscape-Type 2
1976 -
Soft Screw as Balloon, Ascending
1976 -
Soft Screw in Waterfall
1976 -
Arched Soft Screw as Building
1976 -
Strawberry Skull Bike Seat
1975 -
Picasso Cufflink
1973 -
Proposal for a Cathedral in the Form of a Colossal Faucet, Lake Union, Seattle
1972 -
Ten Days to Change the World (Poster for Youth International Party)
1972 -
7-Up, Pink Characters, Green Background
1972 -
Clothespin Elevations
1972–1974 -
Ice Bag - Scale C.
1971 -
Alphabet In Form Of A Good Humor Bar
1970 -
Typewriter Erasers - Position Studies
1970 -
Study for Feasible Monument: Lipstick, Yale
1969 -
Giant Ice Bag - Cross Section, View II, New Haven
1969 -
Soft Fireplug
1969 -
Study of a Soft Fireplug, Inverted
1969 -
Symbolic Self-Portrait with "Equals"
1969, printed 1971 -
Untitled (Punch Bag)
1968 -
Untitled (New Pasadena Museum)
1968 -
Untitled (Ice Cream Cones)
1968
123 works