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.

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.

Claes Oldenburg. Soft Light Switches–”Ghost Version” II, 1971. Image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. Claes Oldenburg. Light Switches–Hard Version, Replica (Brown), 1969.

When Claes Oldenburg, widely recognized as the father of Pop art, heard that a visitor to his studio at the western edge of SoHo wanted to see drawings of the fictional land he invented as a child ...

Claes Oldenburg made an indelible mark on Philadelphia’s urban landscape, three times. His iconic Clothespin, a black, 45-foot tall stylized clothespin made of Cor-Ten steel, was installed in 1976 ...

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.

The late sculptor Claes Oldenburg created a monumental installation, "Stake Hitch," for the central hall in the Dallas Museum of Art for its 1984 opening. You probably haven't seen it because the ...