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Object Details

Artist

Claes Oldenburg, American, b. Stockholm, Sweden, 1929–2022

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, no. 123, color ill. p. 77.

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

1961

Accession Number

94.13

Type

Sculpture

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)

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection

School

Pop Art (American)

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Record ID

hmsg_94.13

Metadata Usage (text)

Not determined

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py28080bd7e-ca7f-4ca6-b09e-706719a9b8b0