Artist

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

1976–2009

28 works in the collection 5 exhibitions at the Whitney

Works in the collection

A metal flashlight lies on a wet wooden floor with water pooling and flowing from its lens.

Proposal for a Building in the form of a Colossal Flashlight in place of the Hoover Dam, Nevada

1982 · Drawings

A simple abstract sketch of an orange circular form with dark blue brushstrokes above it.

Typewriter Eraser

1977 · Drawings

A long curved charcoal sketch resembling a horn resting on a thin horizontal line.

Clarinet Bridge

1992 · Drawings

A small orange kite with a long blue tail drifts toward a distant setting sun.

Blueberry Pie a la Mode, Sliding down a Hill

1996 · Drawings

A pastel drawing of a large green sphere on rocks beside a curved cliff and treed shoreline.

Blueberry Pie Island

1998 · Drawings

An island shaped like a violin with a grassy top, attached bow, and scattered rocks.

Soft Viola Island

2001 · Drawings

Yellow leather sculpture resembling a deformed cello suspended from metal hooks with white cords.

Soft Viola

2002 · Sculpture

A large open safety pin with a red clasp leaning and touching a flat surface.

Dream Pin

1998 · Drawings

A pencil sketch of a hanging cocoon-like structure with an orange center and two tiny people nearby.

Notebook Page: Soft Shuttlecock, One Feather Elevated

1994 · Drawings

A simple pencil and colored-pencil sketch of a flower with an orange center and blue petals.

Notebook Page: Soft Shuttlecock Spread on a Field

1994 · Drawings

A pencil and watercolor sketch of a jagged blue saw blade with an orange wooden handle.

Notebook Page: Saw-Tie

1994 · Drawings

A small colored sketch shows a yellow boat pouring a cascade of blue spheres down a hillside.

Notebook Page: Study for a House on the Shore of a Lake in the Form of a Blueberry Pie a la Mode

1996 · Drawings

A torn collage of a clarinet laid across sheet music with a diagonal pencil line.

Notebook Page: Clarinet Adapted to the Form of a Bridge

1992 · Drawings

A small watercolor sketch shows a round white ball resting on yellow rocks and blue water.

Notebook Page: Island in the Form of a Blueberry Pie A La Mode

1996 · Drawings

Four pencil sketches show tall twisting totem-like sculptures on lined notebook paper.

Notebook Page: Variations on a Sculpture in the Form of a Saw

1994 · Drawings

Two botanical sketches showing stems with orange capsule tips and blue-accented leaves.

Soft Shuttlecocks, Falling, Number Two

1995 · Drawings

A sketch of feathers bound together above a small round egg-shaped object.

Soft Shuttlecock, Raised

1994 · Drawings

Sketches of small orange-tipped mushroom or flower shapes with handwritten notes on lined paper.

Notebook Page: Shuttlecock Sculpture Studies—"Am Earheart"

1993 · Drawings

Two small notebook sketches show orange spheres and blue motion lines on a white sheet.

Notebook Page: Shuttlecock Sculpture Studies

1993 · Drawings

A conceptual sketch of a double-arched bridge with ribbed curved supports spanning a river.

Study for Double Screwarch Bridge

1981 · Prints

Two corrugated arching tubes mirror each other over a thin central bridge base.

Double Screwarch Bridge

1980 · Prints

Two large corrugated arches with thin vertical lines span a flat coastal landscape.

Double Screwarch Bridge

1981 · Prints

Two giant black curved towers arch toward each other with thin suspended strings over a plain.

Double Screwarch Bridge

1981 · Prints

Two large ribbed arches with vertical strings meeting at the center over a flat landscape.

Double Screwarch Bridge

1981 · Prints

A futuristic bridge with two large black curved supports connected by suspension cables over a river.

Double Screwarch Bridge

1981 · Prints

Two large ribbed black arches with vertical strings meeting at a central V over a flat shore.

Double Screwarch Bridge

1981 · Prints

Two large black curved supports connected by thin cables form a bridge over a river.

Double Screwarch Bridge

1981 · Prints

Paradise Pies (II and VI) -- VI, 4/6 Red

2009 · Sculpture

Exhibitions at the Whitney