American, Swedish · 1929–2022
Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg was a Swedish-born American sculptor best known for his public art installations, typically featuring large replicas of everyday objects.
U.S.A. Flag
1960 · National Gallery of Art
Pastry Case, I
1961-62 · The Museum of Modern Art
Glass Case with Pies (Assorted Pies in a Case)
1962 · National Gallery of Art
Two Cheeseburgers, with Everything (Dual Hamburgers)
1962 · The Museum of Modern Art
Giant Soft Fan
1966-67 · The Museum of Modern Art
Soft Drainpipe - Red (Hot) Version
1967 · National Gallery of Art
Typewriter Eraser, Scale X
model 1998, fabricated 1999 · National Gallery of Art
Soft Dormeyer Mixer
1965 · Whitney Museum of American Art
Standing Mitt with Ball
1973 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Self Portrait
1958 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Two Heads with Speech
1959 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
"Empire" ("Papa") Ray Gun
1959 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
New Media—New Forms in Painting and Sculpture
1960 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Flag to Fold in the Pocket
1960 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
New Media–New Forms in Painting and Sculpture
1960 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Empire Sign - With M and I Deleted
1960 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Pastry Case
1961 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Red Tights with Fragment 9
April 1961 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Store Poster, Torn Out Letters, Newspaper. Pie, Cup Cakes and Hot Dog
1961 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
The Store
1961 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Store Poster
1961 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Legs
1961 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Ray Gun Poster
1961 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
A Sock and 15 Cents (Studies for Store Objects)
1961, dated 1962 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Table Top with Objects
1961 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Floor Cake
1962 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Floor Cone
1962 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Hamburger
1962 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Striding Figure (Final study for announcement of a dance concert by the Aileen Passloff Dance Company)
1962 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Orpheum Sign (plate 13) from The International Anthology of Contemporary Engraving: The International Avant-Garde, Volume 5: America Discovered (Anthologia internazionale dell'incisione contemporanea: L'Avanguardia internazionale: Volume 5: Scoperta dell'America)
1962, published 1964 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Flying Pizza from New York Ten
1964, published 1965 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Flying Pizza
1964 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Double page plate (pages 172 and 173) from 1¢ Life
1964 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Double page headpiece (pages 136 and 137) from 1¢ Life
1964 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Clinical Study, towards a Heroic-Erotic Monument in the Academic/Comics Style
1965 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Proposed Monument for the Intersection of Canal Street and Broadway, N.Y.C. -- Block of Concrete with the Names of War Heroes
1965 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Proposed Colossal Monument for 42nd Street: Banana
1965 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Proposed Colossal Monument: Fagends in Hyde Park (for the Edition of London Knees #2)
1966 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Fork Cutting Cake No. 1: Proposed Colossal Monument for Piccadilly Circus, London
1966 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Giant Postcard: Noon from London Knees 1966
1966, published 1968 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
False Food Selection
c. 1966 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Knäckebröd
1966 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Giant Postcard: Dawn from London Knees 1966
1966, published 1968 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Untitled (Some Positions of the Knees) from London Knees 1966
1966, published 1968 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Giant Postcard: Sunset from London Knees 1966
1966, published 1968 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
False Food Selection
1966 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Baked Potato from 7 Objects in a Box
1966 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Proposed Colossal Monument to Replace Nelson Column in Trafalgar Square--Gearshift in Motion
1966 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
London Knees 1966
1966, published 1968 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Stripper with Battleship: Preliminary study for "Image of the Buddha Preaching" by Frank O'Hara
1967 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Colossal Fag Ends, Installed on Doberman Estate, Westphalia, with Sheep-Fag End Watching
1967 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Dropped Cup of Coffee: Preliminary study for "Image of the Buddha Preaching" by Frank O'Hara
1967 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Plate (folio 10 verso) from Stamped Indelibly
1967 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
In-text plate (folios 77 verso and 78 recto) from In Memory of My Feelings
1967 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Colossal Fag End, Dream State
1967 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings
1967 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Scissors as Monument from National Collection of Fine Arts Portfolio
1967, published 1968 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Scissors to Cut Out from National Collection of Fine Arts Portfolio
1967, published 1968 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Boom (folio 11) from Stamped Indelibly
1967 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Scissors as Monument
1968 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Unattendable Lunches from S.M.S. No. 6
1968 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Inverted Nose in Landscape I
1968 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Notes
1968 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Design for a Tunnel Entrance in the Form of Nose
1968 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Profile Airflow
1969 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Symbolic Self-Portrait with "Equals"
1971 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
The Letter Q as Beach House, with Sailboat
1972 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Standing Mitt with Ball, Half Scale, 6 Feet
1973 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art
M. Mouse (with) 1 Ear (equals) Tea Bag Blackboard Version (1965)
1973 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art
M. Mouse (with) 1 Ear (equals) Tea Bag Blackboard Version (1965) from The New York Collection for Stockholm
1973 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Picasso Cufflink
1974 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Three Hats from For Meyer Schapiro
1974 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Picasso Cufflink from Homage to Picasso (Hommage à Picasso)
1974, published 1975 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Bat Spinning at the Speed of Light
1975 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Tea Pot
1975 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Smoke and Reflections
1975 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Geometric Mouse, Scale A
1975 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Bat Spinning at the Speed of Light (State II)
1975 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Landscape with Noses
1975 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Landscape with Noses
1976 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Soft Screw in Waterfall
1976 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Colossal Tea Bags in City Square
1976 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Screwarch Bridge, state II
1980 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Proposal for a Monument to the Survival of the University of El Salvador: Blasted Pencil (That Still Writes)
1984 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Characters and Props from "Il Corso del Coltello" Along the Canale do San Marco, Coltello Ship in "Background - Version II"
1986 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Colossal Monument with Mushroom and Screw (Project for John Cage Homage)
1987 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
The Dropped Bowl, with Scattering Slices and Peels–In Advance of the Fountain for Metro-Dade Government Center
1988 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Apple Core, Black & White State
1989–91 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Soft Saxophone (Black, Yellow, Red)
1992 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Rearing Blotter
1995 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Pizza/Palette
1996 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Pizza / Palette
1996 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Proposal for a Sculpture in the Form of a Faucet and Shower Hose for Stockholm Harbor
1997 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Pear
late 1960s · Not on view · Harvard Art Museums
Pat Reading in Bed, Lenox
1959 · Not on view · Whitney Museum of American Art
Pat Standing in a Radish Patch
1959 · Not on view · Whitney Museum of American Art