For more than a quarter-century, a Claes Oldenburg sculpture stood ... Popular culture is regularly misunderstood as the subject of Pop art, but Oldenburg knew that art culture is its actual ...

The visual artist Claes Oldenburg, one of the most playful forces in Pop Art, has died at age 93. His death Monday was confirmed to NPR in a statement from Paula Cooper, whose gallery represented him.

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 ...

Claes Oldenburg, a Swedish-born artist whose ... and binoculars as big as buildings — made him a leading force in pop art, died July 18 at his home in Manhattan. He was 93.

Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, known around the world for his ... In addition to his inextricable role in the development of Pop Art, he changed the very nature of sculpture from hard to soft ...

Claes Oldenburg; via the Oldenburg van Bruggen Studio ... He was the only major artist associated with Pop Art to have drawn comics professionally. Mr. Oldenburg became a United States citizen ...

Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, who turned the mundane ... as the establishment ironically championed the once-outsider art. Many of Oldenburg’s later works were produced in collaboration with ...

Claes Oldenburg, a Swedish-born artist whose ... of hamburgers and ice cream cones — made him a leading force in pop art, died July 18 at his home in Manhattan. He was 93. His death was ...