Claes Oldenburg

French Fries and Ketchup
1963

A sculpture resembling a pile of oversized, realistic-looking French fries in a yellow color, with a large red ketchup-like form draped over them, all presented on a round white platter against a grey background.

A sculpture resembling a pile of oversized, realistic-looking French fries in a yellow color, with a large red ketchup-like form draped over them, all presented on a round white platter against a grey background.

Not on view

Date
1963

Classification
Sculpture

Medium
Vinyl and kapok on wood base

Dimensions
Overall: 10 1/2 × 42 × 44in. (26.7 × 106.7 × 111.8 cm)

Accession number
79.37a-g

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; 50th Anniversary Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Meltzer

Rights and reproductions
© Claes Oldenburg

API
artworks/2101

Exhibitions

Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019

Nov 22, 2019–Feb 20, 2022
Claes Oldenburg: Early Sculpture, Drawings, and Happenings Films

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: The Music Room

May 7–Sept 6, 2009
Highlights from the Permanent Collection: From Pollock to Today

Dec 7, 2000–Feb 10, 2002

Claes Oldenburg
123 works in the collection

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