id: 163549 accession number: 2004.88.a share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2004.88.a updated: 2023-01-11 10:34:40.068000 Giant Toothpaste Tube, 1964. Claes Thure Oldenburg (American, 1929–2022). Vinyl over canvas filled with kapok; wood, metal and cast plastic; overall: 64.8 x 167.6 x 43.2 cm (25 1/2 x 66 x 17 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 2004.88.a © Claes Thure Oldenburg title: Giant Toothpaste Tube title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1964 creation date earliest: 1964 creation date latest: 1964 current location: creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: © Claes Thure Oldenburg --- culture: America, 20th century technique: vinyl over canvas filled with kapok; wood, metal and cast plastic department: Contemporary Art collection: CONTEMP - Sculpture type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Claes Thure Oldenburg (American, 1929–2022) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 64.8 x 167.6 x 43.2 cm (25 1/2 x 66 x 17 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * 1995-1996 - "Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology" Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art (February 12-May 7,1995) | Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art (June 18-September 3, 1995) | New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (October 7, 1995-Janurary 21, 1996) | Bonn, Kunst-und Ausstellunghalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (February 15-May 12, 1996) | London, The Hayward Gallery (June 6-August 19, 1996)

1991-1993 - "The Pop Art Show" London, Royal Academy of Art (September 13-December 16, 1991) | Cologne, Museum Ludwig (January 22-April 21, 1992) | Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (June 16-September 24, 1992) | Montréal, Musée des beaux-arts (October 22, 1992-January 24, 1993)

1971-1973 - "Claes Oldenburg: Object into Monument" Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum (December 7, 1971-February 6, 1972) | Berkeley, University Art Museum (February 28-April 9, 1972) | Des Moines, Des Moines Art Center (September 18-October 29, 1972) | Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago (January 20-February 25, 1973)

1970 - "Oldenburg" London, The Tate Gallery (June 24-August 16, 1970)

1970 - "Claes Oldenburg" Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art (January 16-March 15, 1970)

1969 - "Claes Oldenburg" New York, Museum of Modern Art (September 25-November 23, 1969)

1966 - London, Robert Fraser Gallery, 1966

1964 - "Exhibition of Recent Work by Claes Oldenburg" New York, Sidney Janis Gallery (April 7-May 2, 1964) --- PROVENANCE The Artist; Sydney Janis Gallery, New York; Alan Power, London; Private Collection, London; Richard Lane, New York (acquired from Didier Imbert Fine Art, Paris 1989); Private Collection, USA (acquired from James Mayor Gallery, London 1992). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Oldenburg kept the color and shape of the toothpaste tube he recreated true to reality, and instead changed the context, size, and state of his subject to render his object surreal and humorous. digital description: Oldenburg became known in the 1960s for his involvement with New York counterculture figures in producing group performances called happenings and art films. Later in the decade, he mined ubiquitous consumer culture to create sculptures of commonplace objects rendered in monumental size through unexpected materials. Elevated from a banal household thing into a work of art, these works make the most everyday subjects strange, presenting them as if we were encountering them for the first time. wall description: Oldenburg became known in the 1960s for his involvement with New York counterculture figures in producing group performances called happenings and art films. Later in the decade, he mined ubiquitous consumer culture to create sculptures of commonplace objects rendered in monumental size through unexpected materials. Elevated from a banal household thing into a work of art, these works make the most everyday subjects strange, presenting them as if we were encountering them for the first time. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES