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 ...

“I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all,” wrote Claes Oldenburg in 1961, six decades before his death on Monday. “I am for an art that embroils itself with the everyday crap and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, who turned the mundane into the monumental through his outsized sculptures of an umbrella in Des Moines, a baseball bat in Chicago, among other objects, has died at age 93.

“The two forms humans are attracted to is a penis and a gun … and that’s essentially a right angle, which is everywhere, specially in New York.” —Claes Oldenburg during the press preview of Claes ...

FILE - Pop artist Claes Oldenburg watches as his sculpture "Paint Torch" is installed by the George Young Company at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia on Saturday, Aug. 20, ...

Screenprint and lithograph from a portfolio of seventeen screenprints, nine lithographs, two lithographs with screenprint, one photocopy, and one photograph. Hand-signed and numbered by Oldenburg From ...

For more than a quarter-century, a Claes Oldenburg sculpture stood as a side-street landmark in West Hollywood. An enormous stainless-steel knife blade, 6 feet tall and 12 feet long, sliced down from ...

Not everyone liked the things that artist Claes Oldenburg made, which were gigantic sculptures of such commonplace items as a hamburger, a lipstick case, clothespin, ice cream cone, pretzel, ironing ...