Akron Art Museum
70 East Market Street
Akron, OH 44308-2084
Akron, OH 44308-2084
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Museums page for Claes Thure Oldenburg ((1929 - 2022)), known for Whimsical pop art sculpture, public installations. Showing 43 museum collections and exhibitions.
Claes Thure Oldenburg MUSEUMS
1929 Stockholm, Sweden - 2022 Manhattan, New York City. Known for: Whimsical pop art sculpture, public installations.
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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Museums & Collections (43)
All MuseumsAllen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
Oberlin College
87 North Main Street
Oberlin, OH 44074Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
501 East 9th Street
Po Box 2137
Little Rock, AR 72202Boca Raton Museum of Art
Mizner Park
501 Plaza Real
Boca Raton, FL 33432Buffalo AKG Art Museum
1285 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222Chrysler Museum of Art
245 West Olney Road
Norfolk, VA 23510City Museum, Amsterdam
Amsterdam, NetherlandsCranbrook Art Museum
39221 Woodward Avenue
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303-0801Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood Street
Dallas, TX 75201Denver Art Museum
100 West 14th Avenue Parkway
Denver, CO 80204Flint Institute of Arts
1120 East Kearsley Street
Flint, MI 48503Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, CUNY
450 Klapper Hall,
6530 Kissena Blvd
Flushing, NY 11367Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Smithsonian Institution: 7th Street & Independence Ave. Sw
Mail To: Po Box 37012/Hmsg Mrc 350
Washington, DC 20013-7012Hunter Museum of American Art
10 Bluff View
Chattanooga, TN 37403Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
University of Miami
1301 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum
8888 University Drive West
Burnaby, BC BC V5A 1S6
CanadaMichael C Carlos Museum, Emory University
Emory University
571 Kilgo Street
Atlanta, GA 30322-1950Mint Museum of Art
2730 Randolph Road
Charlotte, NC 28207-2031Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
3200 Darnell Street
Fort Worth, TX 76107Museum of Contemporary Art-Chicago
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611-2604Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1001 Bissonnet
Po Box 6826
Houston, TX 77005Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm
Stockholm, SwedenNeuberger Museum of Art
Suny, Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577-1400Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak Street
Oakland, CA 94607Oklahoma City Museum of Art, OKCMOA
415 Couch Drive
Oklahoma City, OK 73102Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
1103 Biscayne Blvd
Miami, FL 33132Reynolda House-Museum of American Art
Museum of American Art
Po Box 11765
Winston-Salem, NC 27116Saint Louis Art Museum
Forest Park
One Fine Arts Drive
St. Louis, MO 63110San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103Smith College Museum of Art
20 Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
Northampton, MA 01063Spencer Museum of Art
University of Kansas
1301 Mississippi Street
Lawrence, KS 66045-7500Tate Britain
Millbank
London, United KingdomThe Empire State Plaza Art Collection
Empire State Plaza
Albany, NY 12242The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art
5401 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota, FL 34243The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111-1873The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102The University of Arizona Museum of Art
1031 N. Olive Road
Tucson, AZ 85721-0002Town Linz Gallery/Wolfgang Gurlitt
Linz, AustriaUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY ART MUSEUM & PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE
2626 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94720University of Michigan Museum of Art, UMMA
525 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1354Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403Weisman Art Museum
The University of Minnesota
333 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014