As a Pop artist, Claes Oldenburg celebrates the everyday object with a keen sense of humor. Claes Oldenburg takes a banal object and transforms it into a sculptural form by representing it using radically different materials and scale. Claes Oldenburg is also an extraordinary draftsman and frequently transforms his ideas for monumental outdoor sculptures and landscape reorientations into drawings and prints that are imaginative variants of his ideas about their installation.
Oldenburg was honored with a one-person exhibition of his work at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1969, and with a retrospective organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 1995. His work is represented in collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art; and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.