Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology
February 12 – May 7, 1995
East Building, Upper Level and Mezzanine
This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.
Overview: 123 works of sculpture, 58 drawings, and 2 prints were chosen from the National Gallery of Art and other public and private collections. Included in the show were 2 large-scale works created for outdoor sites, Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks and Knife Ship I, created in collaboration with Coosje van Bruggen, the artist's wife, and architect Frank Gehry. This was the first exhibition since 1969 to survey the artist's work.
Organization: Curators for the show were Germano Celant, curator of contemporary art at the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, and Marla Prather, associate curator of 20th-century art at the National Gallery.
Attendance: 197,973
Catalog: Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology, by Germano Celant, Dieter Koepplin, and Mark Rosenthal. New York: Solomon Guggenheim Foundation, 1995.
Brochure: Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology, by Marla Prather. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1995.
Other Venues: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, June 18–September 3, 1995
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 7, 1995–January 21, 1996
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, February 15–May 12, 1996
Hayward Gallery, London, June 6–August 19, 1996
- Oldenburg, Claes
- American, 1929 - 2022
- Conversations with Artists: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
- Audio, Released: July 12, 2011, (81:53 minutes)
- Elson Lecture 1995: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
- Audio, Released: March 29, 2011, (67:09 minutes)