Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, known around the world for his whimsical public sculptures depicting everyday objects—a clothespin, a spoon with a cherry, and even a toilet—has died at age 93. “I am ...

As a Swedish immigrant child in Chicago, Claes Oldenburg dreamed up an imaginary world in intricately detailed drawings. As a founding father of Pop art, he focused on real objects of the most ...

Claes Oldenburg, a Swedish Pop artist best known for his sculpture work, died July 18 at his home in Manhattan, confirmed Pace Gallery and Paula Cooper Gallery, which represent him. He was 93.

(Reuters) - Swedish-born artist Claes Oldenburg, who turned everyday objects such as a clothespin, a baseball bat or a flashlight into giant sculptures of public art in the United States and around ...

This spring, a massive trowel will touch down in the middle of the Channel Gardens inside Rockefeller Center. The cerulean blue plantoir is the work of Claes Oldenburg and his late wife, Coosje van ...

Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, who turned the mundane into the monumental through his outsized sculptures of a baseball bat, a clothespin and other objects, has died at age 93. Oldenburg died Monday ...

Claes Oldenburg, the renowned sculptor who imagined a 60-foot fishing pole along the banks of Gore Creek, died on Monday, his daughter Maartje Oldenburg reported. Oldenburg had been in poor health ...

Claes Oldenburg's Batcolumn stands near the corner of Madison and Jefferson. Credit: Kirk Williamson At the corner of Madison and Jefferson in Chicago stands a 100-foot-high baseball bat, constructed ...

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Screenprint in colors on three-ply cardboard and cast resin soap multiple on vinyl bed filled with aluminum silicate with a screenprint in colors on acetate and deluxe edition of Claes Oldenburg: ...

Claes Oldenburg's sculpture during its deinstallation this week at Morse College (photo by and courtesy Alexa Martindale) Yale University's decision to move a beloved Claes Oldenburg sculpture to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Swedish American sculptor Claes Oldenburg works in his studio in 1969. His art has a strong presence in Los Angeles, thanks in ...