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Claes (Thure) Oldenburg Biography

(1929 - )

Related Works

1961 Red Tights with Fragment 9 (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
1961–2 Pastry Case, I (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
1962 Dual Hamburger (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City)

1966–7 Giant Soft Fan (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
1069 Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks (Yale University, Connecticut)
1975 Geometric Mouse, Scale A (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
1976 Colossal Ashtray with Fagends (Pompidou Centre, Paris)
1977 Batcolumn (Chicago)
1991 Free Stamp (Cleveland, Ohio)
1992 Mistos, or Match Cover (Barcelona)
1994 Museum à la Mode
1998 Big Sweep
2002 Cupid's Span Sunset (San Francisco)
2005 Balzac Petanque (High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia)

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(born Jan. 28, 1929, Stockholm, Swed.) Swedish-born U.S. Pop art sculptor. The son of a consular official, he spent part of his early life in the U.S. He graduated from Yale University and attended the Art Institute of Chicago before doing freelance illustrations for magazines. He turned to sculpture after moving to New York City in 1956. Like other practitioners of Pop art, he chose banal subjects from consumer culture, but for “soft sculptures” such as Giant Clothespin (1976) and Giant Soft Shuttlecock (1995) he chose subjects with close human associations. His frequent use of soft, yielding vinyl gave the objects human, often sexual overtones.