Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, co-creator of the iconic ... in Chicago and moved to New York in 1956. The giant spoon and crimson red cherry of "Spoonbridge and Cherry" has been known as the literal ...

Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, known around the world for his whimsical public sculptures depicting everyday objects—a clothespin, a spoon with a cherry, and even a toilet—has died at age 93.

Move over, cherry. It’s spoon time! After a week of on-and-off rain, on Friday morning crews from the Walker Art Center and Fine Art Finishes began the four-day process of priming and repainting the ...

In the late 80s, artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen ... In May of 1988, two cranes finally put the spoon and cherry in its place. "It's pretty cool. It shoots water out of the stem ...

The visual artist Claes Oldenburg, one of the most playful ... or a hamburger, or a cherry perched on the tip of a spoon — in giant scale, and then put that artwork in public spaces.

Claes Oldenburg, whose large-scale public sculptures ... The whimsical image (a spoon, holding a cherry, straddles a pond) became ingrained in her mind. Oldenburg, says Reeve, believed that ...

“Clothespin” (1976) by Claes Oldenburg ... piece by Oldenburg, Giant Three-Way Plug, was added to the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s sculpture garden in 2010. The PMA also has an “indoor” version of the ...

The 48-foot-tall maroon, red, and gray “Free Stamp,’’ envisioned in 1985 by Oldenburg and van Bruggen, was intended to adorn a platform facing Public Square at the base of the Sohio Building ...

The Minneapolis skyline rises in the background behind "Spoonbridge and Cherry" by Claes Oldenburg in the city's Sculpture Garden near the Walker Art Center.