Claes Oldenburg, American, b. Stockholm, Sweden, 1929–2022 Search this
Medium:
Plaster, acrylic enamel, fabric, and metal
Dimensions:
55 3/8 x 39 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. (140.7 x 99.7 x 14 cm)
Type:
Sculpture
Date:
1961
Provenance:
[Green Gallery, New York]
[Emily and Burton Tremaine, Connecticut, to 11 May 1994]
Sold: Sotheby's, New York, Sale Number 6554, 11 May 1994, Lot 25
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase and Bequest Funds, 1994
Exhibition History:
[GREEN GALLERY, New York.]
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. "Americans 1963," 20 May-18 August 1963, ill. p. 79.
XXXII BIENNALE INTERNAZIONALE D'ARTE VENEZIA, 20 June-18 October 1964, no. 92, p. 280.
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York. "New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970," 15 October 1969-1 February 1970, no. 289, ill. p. 255.
WADSWORTH ATHENEUM, Hartford, Connecticut. "The Tremaine Collection: 20th Century Masters," 26 February-29 April 1984, ill. p. 186.
[SOTHEBY'S, New York. Sale Number 6554, 11 May 1994, Lot 25.]
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Washington, DC. "Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology," 12 February-7 May 1995, no. 29, ill. p. 84. TOUR: MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Los Angeles, 18 June-3 September; SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York (co-organizers), 7 October-21 January 1996.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "The Hirshhorn Collects: Recent Acquisitions 1992-1996," 4 June-7 September 1997, unpublished checklist.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Ways of Seeing: John Baldessari Explores the Collection," 26 July 2006-23 September 2007, no cat.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. "Claes Oldenburg," 9 April-4 August 2013.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection," 16 October 2014-24 April 2016, no cat.
MUSEE NATIONAL DES BEAUX-ARTS DU QUEBEC. "America. Between Dreams and Realities: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection," 9 June-5 September 2022, color ill. p. 99.
Published References:
UNSIGNED (chosen by Robert Scull). "New Talent USA: Sculpture," Art in America, vol. 50, no. 1 (1962), ill. p. 32.
SECKLER, DOROTHY GEES. "Folklore of the Banal: An Introduction to the Provocative New Realism," Art in America, vol. 51, no. 4 (1963), ill. p. 44.
RUBLOWSKY, JOHN. Pop Art (New York: Basic Books, 1965), n.p., ill. (with the artist)
AMAYA, MARIO. Pop Art...and After (New York: Viking Press, 1965), p. 92, ill.
ROSE, BARBARA. Claes Oldenburg (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1970), ill. p. 76.
ROSENZWEIG, PHYLLIS. "Claes Oldenburg," in Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: 150 Works of Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996), pp. 106-107, ill.
SHAW-EAGLE, JOANNA. "'Recent Acquisitions' at the Hirshhorn Paints Broad Sweep," Washington Times (20 July 1997), p. D4.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 189, p. 210.
Credit Line:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase and Bequest Funds, 1994
