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Clothespin is a weathering steel sculpture by Claes Oldenburg, located at Centre Square, 1500 Market Street, Philadelphia. [2] It is designed to appear as a monumental black clothespin .
Claes Oldenburg was born on January 28, 1929, in Stockholm, [3] the son of Gösta Oldenburg [4] and his wife Sigrid Elisabeth née Lindforss. [5] His father was then a Swedish diplomat stationed in New York and in 1936 was appointed consul general of Sweden to Chicago where Oldenburg grew up, attending the Latin School of Chicago.
This is a list of public art by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, also termed their "large scale projects". Oldenburg (1929-2022) and van Bruggen (1942–2009) were married Swedish-American and American-Dutch sculptors (respectively), best known for their Installation art typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects.
The sculptor was known for turning the mundane into the monumental through his over-sized sculptures of a baseball bat, a clothespin, and the iconic shuttlecocks at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
A legend exists, mainly circulated by students at the University of Pennsylvania, that attributes The Button to the university's founder, Benjamin Franklin.A monument of a seated Franklin stands near the sculpture; legend has it that when this man of considerable girth sat down, his vest button popped off and rolled across the university's Locust Walk.
Plastic clothespins on a ... consuming 500,000 board-feet of lumber at the height of ... One famous clothespin is a sculpture by Claes Oldenburg, entitled Clothespin.
Clothespin (Oldenburg) Centre Square: 1976: Claes Oldenburg: Cor-Ten and stainless steel: 45 ft. x 12 ft. 3 in. x 4 ft. 6 in. CommonWealth REIT [16] [17] IAS 77001303 [18] Samuel Davies (Calder) Presbyterian Historical Society courtyard
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