Whimsical sculpture of pop culture objects, many of them large and out-of-doors, is the signature work of Swedish-born Claes Oldenburg who became one of America's leading Pop Artists. He was born in... Read full biography
Whimsical sculpture of pop culture objects, many of them large and out-of-doors, is the signature work of Swedish-born Claes Oldenburg who became one of America's leading Pop Artists. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden. His father was a diplomat, and during Claes' childhood moved his family from... Read full biography
Whimsical sculpture of pop culture objects, many of them large and out-of-doors, is the signature work of Swedish-born Claes Oldenburg who became one of America's leading Pop Artists. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden. His father was a diplomat, and during Claes' childhood moved his family from Stockholm to a variety of locations including Chicago where the father was general consul of Sweden and where Oldenburg spent most of his childhood. He attended the Latin School of Chicago, and then Yale... Read full biography
Whimsical sculpture of pop culture objects, many of them large and out-of-doors, is the signature work of Swedish-born Claes Oldenburg who became one of America's leading Pop Artists. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden. His father was a diplomat, and during Claes' childhood moved his family from Stockholm to a variety of locations including Chicago where the father was general consul of Sweden and where Oldenburg spent most of his childhood. He attended the Latin School of Chicago, and then Yale University where he studied literature and art history, graduating in 1950, the same year Claes became an American citizen. Returning to Chicago, he enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1952 to 1954 and also worked as a reporter at the City... Read full biography
Whimsical sculpture of pop culture objects, many of them large and out-of-doors, is the signature work of Swedish-born Claes Oldenburg who became one of America's leading Pop Artists. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden. His father was a diplomat, and during Claes' childhood moved his family from Stockholm to a variety of locations including Chicago where the father was general consul of Sweden and where Oldenburg spent most of his childhood. He attended the Latin School of Chicago, and then Yale University where he studied literature and art history, graduating in 1950, the same year Claes became an American citizen. Returning to Chicago, he enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1952 to 1954 and also worked as a reporter at the City News Bureau. He opened his own studio, and in 1953, some of his satirical drawings were included in his first group show at the Club... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (230)
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Art Metropole: The Top 100 (National Gallery of Canada) (Exhibition catalog)
2006
Scott, Kitty et al
137 pages
Claes Oldenburg: Raw Notes: Documents and Scripts of the Performances
2005
554 pages
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Sculpture From the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
2005
Janovy, Karen O. (Editor); David Cateforis (Intro)
246 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
New New Painters National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Knizak, Milan; Tomas Vicek
58 pages (color)
Picasso to Pop: The Richard Weisman Collection
2002
Shea, Patricia (Editor)
124 pages
Cheerio to Cheerios
2002
Sylvester, David
387 pages
Claes Oldenburg Drawings
2002
Whitney, Janie
0 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
1997
Hughes, Robert
635 pages (color)
Visual Arts in the 20th Century
1997
Lucie-Smith, Edward
400 pages (color)
Pop Art A Critical History
1997
Madoff, Steven Henry (editor)
420 pages (color)
Objects of Desire The Modern Still Life (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Rowell, Margit
232 pages (color)
Icons of Art The 20th Century
1997
Tesch, Jurgen/E Hollmann
216 pages (color)
A Taste for Pop Pop Art, Gender and Consumer Culture
1997
Whiting, Cecile
304 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art
1996
Demetrion, James T (Introduction)
166 pages (color)
True Colors The Real Life of the Art World
1996
Haden-Guest, Anthony
344 pages (color)
American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
1996
Hopps, Walter (others)
320 pages (color)
The Fate of a Gesture Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art
1996
Ratcliff, Carter
352 pages (color)
Landfall Press: Twenty-Five Years Of Printmaking
1996
Ruzicka, Joseph
220 pages (color)
Drawing the Line Reappraising Drawing Past and Present (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Craig-Martin, Michael
108 pages (color)
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
The Paine Webber Art Collection
1995
Flam, Jack; Donald Marron
304 pages (color)
Views from Abroad European Perspectives on American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Fuchs, Rudi/Adam D Weinberg
127 pages (color)
Hallmark Art Collections 1995 Acquisitions
1995
Hallmark Cards
10 pages
Printmaking in America Collaborative Prints and Presses 1960-1990
1995
Hansen, Trudy (others)
248 pages (color)
History of Art: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts From the Dawn of History to the Present Day
1995
Janson, H W; Dora Jane Janson
960 pages (color)
Art Today
1995
Lucie-Smith, Edward
512 pages (color)
The Avant-Garde in Exhibition New Art in the 20th Century (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Altshuler, Bruce
288 pages (color)
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
American Realism
1994
Lucie-Smith, Edward
240 pages (color)
Sculpture An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1994
National Gallery of Art
283 pages
Old Glory The American Flag in Contemporary Art (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Rubin, David S
64 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Hand-Painted Pop American Art in Transition 1955-62 (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Ferguson, Russell (editor)
256 pages (color)
American Art in the 20th Century Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993 (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Joachimides, Christos (others)
490 pages (color)
Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
1993
Kostelanetz, Richard
246 pages
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art A Handbook of the Collection
1993
Ward, Roger and Patricia J Fidler (Compilers and Editors)
414 pages (color)
Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970
1992
Seitz, William C
250 pages (color)
Modernism in Dispute Art Since the Forties
1992
Wood, Paul (others)
267 pages (color)
Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945
1991
Hoffman, Katherine
400 pages (color)
Large Scale Works on Paper (Exhibition catalog)
1991
John Berggruen Gallery
47 pages (color)
Claes Oldenburg Multiples in Retrospective 1964-1990 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Oldenburg, Claes (A Solway ed)
157 pages (color)
Breakthroughs Avant-Garde Artists in Europe & America 1950-1990
1991
Wexner Center, Ohio State U
310 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Word As Image American Art 1960-1990 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Bowman, Russell/Dean Sobel
172 pages (color)
Art What Thou Eat Images of Food in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Gustafson, Donna (others)
191 pages (color)
Pop Art A Continuing History
1990
Livingstone, Marco
271 pages (color)
High and Low Modern Art/Popular Culture (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Varnedoe, Kirk/Adam Gopnik
460 pages (color)
First Impressions Early Prints by Forty-six Contemporary Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Elizabeth
149 pages (color)
Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen
230 pages (color)
The Story of Modern Art
1989
Lynton, Norbert
400 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Universal Limited Art Editions History and Catalogue/the 1st 25 Years
1989
Sparks, Esther
552 pages (color)
A Bottle of Notes and Some Voyages Claes Oldenburg Coosje Van Bruggen
1988
Celant, Germano
234 pages (color)
Twentieth Century Watercolors
1988
Finch, Christopher
310 pages (color)
Autocritique Essays on Art and Anti-Art
1988
Rose, Barbara
293 pages
American Art of the 1960s
1988
Sandler, Irving
412 pages (color)
Commited to Print (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Wye, Deborah
120 pages
Masterworks on Paper from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
1987
Brutvan, Cheryl
168 pages (color)
Transformation of the Avant-Garde The New York Art World 1940-1985
1987
Crane, Diana
194 pages
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
20th Century Drawings from the Whitney Museum of American Art
1987
Cummings, Paul
176 pages (color)
Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
1987
Feldman, Edmund Burke
528 pages (color)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972
1987
Krane, Susan
379 pages (color)
The Empire State Collection Art for the Public
1987
Sandler, Irving
214 pages (color)
Made In U S A An Americanization in Modern Art '50s & 60s (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Stich, Sidra
280 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
American Watercolors
1986
Finch, Christopher
312 pages (color)
An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Hunter, Sam
269 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Colorado Springs Fine Art Center A History and Selections from the Collection
1986
Piazza, Paul/Marshall Sprague
210 pages (color)
Definitive Statements: American Art 1964-66 Brown University Department of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Plante, Michael; Christopher Campbell, Megan Fox, et all
181 pages
Twentieth Century Artists on Art
1985
Ashton, Dore (Editor)
302 pages
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
Cinquante Ans de Dessins Americai 1930-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Ecole Nationale/Beaux-Arts
290 pages (color)
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
American Art Now
1985
Lucie-Smith, Edward
160 pages (color)
With an Eye to American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Miller, Dorothy C
16 pages
Artwords Discourse on the 60s and 70s
1985
Siegel, Jeanne
235 pages
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
Dallas Museum of Art Selected Works
1984
Bromberg, Anne R
219 pages (color)
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Selections from Permanent Collection
1984
Chicago, Museum Contemporary
164 pages (color)
The Art of the City Views and Versions of New York
1984
Conrad, Peter
329 pages
Sculpture in America (new and revised edition)
1984
Craven, Wayne
782 pages
The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scenes Tell How
1984
DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones
320 pages
Twentieth Century American Drawin from the Arkansas Arts Center (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Glover, John/Townsend Wolfe
95 pages
Blam, the Explosion of Pop, Minimalism and Performance 1958-1964 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Haskell, Barbara
160 pages
The Museum of Modern Art, New York The History and the Collection
1984
Hunter, Sam
599 pages (color)
Movements in Art since 1945 New Revised Edition
1984
Lucie-Smith, Edward
288 pages (color)
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
Mary and William Sisler Collectio (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Naumann, Francis M
324 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984
Orr-Cahill, Christina
199 pages (color)
American Printmaking A Century of American Printmaking 1880-1980
1984
Watrous, James
334 pages (color)
Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection
1983
Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds
273 pages (color)
American Still Life 1945-1983 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Cathcart, Linda L
144 pages (color)
The Art of New York
1983
Chwast, Seymour/S Heller
190 pages
Prints A Collector's Guide
1983
Kaplan, Ellen
253 pages
Drawing in Air Sculptors' Drawing 1882-1982 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Knipe, Tony (editor)
187 pages (color)
The First Show (1940-1980) Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Museum of Contemporary Art
293 pages (color)
American Works on Paper 100 Years of American Art History (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Smith Kramer Art Connections
113 pages (color)
American Art Since 1945
1982
Ashton, Dore
224 pages (color)
The Americans/The Collage (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Contemporary Arts Museum
143 pages (color)
American Artists on Art from 1940 to 1980
1982
Johnson, Ellen H (editor)
274 pages
Drawings by Contemporary Sculptors (Surrey Art Gallery)
1982
Young, Jane
32 pages
American Art Theory 1945-1970
1981
Buettner Stewart
213 pages
Drawing Acquisitions, 1978-1981 Whitney Museum of American Art
1981
Cummings, Paul
64 pages
The Image in American Painting and Sculpture 1950-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Danoff, Michael/C K Carr
102 pages (color)
American Prints: Process and Proofs
1981
Goldman, Judith
176 pages (color)
Contemporary American Realism Since 1960 (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts)
1981
Goodyear, Frank H, Jr.
255 pages (color)
An American Choice Muriel Kallis Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Lieberman, William (editor)
167 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
Denver Art Museum Major Works in the Collection
1981
Ritchie, Margaret
304 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
The Meanings of Modern Art
1981
Russell, John
429 pages (color)
Twentieth Century Drawings Selections from the Whitney
1981
Whitney Museum
136 pages
Printed Art: A View of Two Decades
1980
Castleman, Riva
144 pages (color)
Shock of the New: The Hundred Years History of American Art Its Rise, Dazzling Achievement, Its Fall
1980
Hughes, Robert
423 pages (color)
Urban Encounters Art, Architecture, Audience
1980
Institute of Contemporary Art
64 pages (color)
American Prints and Printmakers A Chronicle of Over 400 Artists
1980
Johnson, Una E
266 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
1979
Brown, Milton W (others)
616 pages (color)
Documents, Drawings, and Collages Fifty American Works on Paper (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Butler, Hiram (others)
123 pages
Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Carlson, Victor/Carol Smith
199 pages (color)
American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources
1979
Doumato, Lamia
246 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
730 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
Drawings about Drawing Today (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Shoemaker, Innis H (intro)
85 pages
The Fine Arts in America
1979
Taylor, Joshua C
264 pages
Contemporary American Prints (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Towle, Tony/Peter Gale
64 pages (color)
Art of the Sixties
1978
Adams, Hugh
80 pages (color)
Why Art? A Guide to Viewing Contemporary American Art
1978
Daniels, Florence
222 pages
Art About Art
1978
Lipman, Jean/Richard Marshall
176 pages (color)
American Realism
1978
Mathey, Francois
192 pages
The New York School The Painters & Sculptors of the Fifties
1978
Sandler, Irving
366 pages (color)
Spencer Museum of Art Handbook of the Collection
1978
Spencer Museum of Art
168 pages (color)
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
The Chosen Object European and American Still Life (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Cloudman, Ruth H
66 pages
American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources
1977
Ekdahl, Janis
260 pages
The Mouse Museum Two Collections/Two Wings (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Oldenburg, Claes
66 pages (color)
American Art in Belgium (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Societe des Expositions
175 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay)
270 pages (color)
200 Years of American Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Armstrong, Tom
336 pages (color)
30 Years of American Printmaking Including 20th National Print Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Baro, Gene
160 pages (color)
In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all
322 pages (color)
American Prints 1913-1963 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Castelman, Riva
160 pages
American Drawings The 20th Century
1976
Cummings, Paul
207 pages
The Art of America Since World War II
1976
Glubok, Shirley
48 pages
Beyond Modern Art
1976
Gottlieb, Carla
434 pages
A Selection of American Art The Skowhegan School 1946-1976
1976
Institute of Contemporary Art
194 pages
Modern Art and the Object A Century of Changing Values
1976
Johnson, Ellen H
240 pages
Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776
1976
Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc
208 pages (color)
From Foreign Shores Three Centuries...Foreign Born American Masters (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Milwaukee Art Center
186 pages (color)
Twentieth Century American Drawin Three Avant-Garde Generations (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum
125 pages (color)
American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper
1976
Stebbins, Theodore E
464 pages (color)
America as Art
1976
Taylor, Joshua C
320 pages (color)
The Saint Louis Art Museum Handbook of Collections
1975
Buckley, Charles E
377 pages (color)
The Roots and Routes of Art in the 20th Century
1975
Cone, Michele
252 pages
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
American Art Since 1945 From the Collection of MOMA