Claes Oldenburg

Stockholm, Sverige · b. 1929 — d. 2022

Painting & Sculpture Drawings & Prints Fluxus Collection Pop Art Architecture & Design

Claes Oldenburg American, born Sweden, 1929-2022

Timeline

Born 1929 — Died 2022

1950s

1958

Self Portrait

1959

Two Heads with Speech

1959

"Empire" ("Papa") Ray Gun

1960s

1960

Empire Sign - With M and I Deleted

Big Cardboard Flag

Woman on a Bus

1960

New Media–New Forms in Painting and Sculpture

+87

1970s

System of Iconography - Plug, Mouse, Good Humor, Lipstick, Switches

Osaka Japan Expo

Giant 3-Way Plug Scale 2/3

Striding Figure, from Conspiracy, The Artist as Witness

+26

1980s

Screwarch Bridge State II

1980

Screwarch Bridge, state II

1984

Proposal for a Monument to the Survival of the University of El Salvador: Blasted Pencil (That Still Writes)

1986

Characters and Props from "Il Corso del Coltello" Along the Canale do San Marco, Coltello Ship in "Background - Version II"

1990s

1992

Soft Saxophone (Black, Yellow, Red)

1996

Pizza / Palette

1997

Proposal for a Sculpture in the Form of a Faucet and Shower Hose for Stockholm Harbor

Works

135 artworks

Self Portrait

, 1958

Two Heads with Speech

, 1959

Claes Oldenburg

Timeline

Works

Self Portrait

Two Heads with Speech

"Empire" ("Papa") Ray Gun

Big Cardboard Flag

Empire Sign - With M and I Deleted

Woman on a Bus

Flag to Fold in the Pocket

New Media–New Forms in Painting and Sculpture

Table Top with Objects

Pastry Case

A Sock and 15 Cents (Studies for Store Objects)

Pastry Case, I

Legs

Store Poster, Torn Out Letters, Newspaper. Pie, Cup Cakes and Hot Dog

Red Tights with Fragment 9

Ray Gun Poster

The Store

Counter and Plates with Potato and Ham

Store Poster

Floor Cone

Striding Figure (Final study for announcement of a dance concert by the Aileen Passloff Dance Company)

Two Cheeseburgers, with Everything (Dual Hamburgers)

Floor Cake

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)