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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 .
The most famous piece is Claes Oldenburg's 45 feet (14 m) Cor-Ten and stainless steel sculpture, Clothespin. [3] [14] Located atop the subway entrance in the plaza in front of the building, Centre Square is best known because of Clothespin and is often called the Clothespin Building. [15]
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.
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.
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.
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