An original 6.5x8.5" vintage press photo from the archives of the Star Tribune Newspaper in Minnpeaolis, Minneapolis. Professionally packaged in a rigid mailer for safe delivery.

Photo Overview

This is an image of a unique soft sculpture created by pop artist Claes Oldenburg, featured in his exhibition at the Modern Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. The artwork utilizes unconventional materials to depict common objects in unusual forms, showcasing Oldenburg's innovative approach to art during the "Pop" art movement in the 1960s.

Claes Oldenburg is renowned for his larger-than-life public art installations and his pioneering role in the Pop Art movement. His works often transform everyday items into sculptural masterpieces that challenge perceptions of art and object. Oldenburg's exhibits have been influential in blurring the boundaries between high art and popular culture.

Text Present

Stamped text on back:
SEP 26 1966

Handwritten text on back:
This pic didn't run

Handwritten notes on back:
" Showing board while sail is down "

Clipping text on back:
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Posters all over Stockholm depict a man of serious mien grappling a six-foot tube of toothpaste. The man is Claes Oldenburg, 37, Swedish-born American artist, one of the vanguard in the "Pop" art revolution, and he's in town for his first one-man museum show at the Modern Museum here.

The toothpaste tube is not in the exhibition ("Somebody stepped on it," he told me, "and the owner wouldn't loan it again") but there are plenty of other examples of his "soft" sculpture on view, as well as drawings and constructions. It's a big show, and Oldenburg has returned to the city of his birth after 20 years to help plan and install it.

Claes (pronounced Clows) Oldenburg is perhaps best known for his soft sculpture—normal or outsized transfigurations of articles of common use, made of plastics and filler. There's a deranged, melting typewriter with keys askew, a drooping washstand and crumpled toilet seat, a sagging bathtub, a wrinkled wall switch, a row of dilapidated electric mixers.

Condition: Photo from a working archive. May contain notes, marks, labels, clippings, and/or retouching by the staff at the time of publication. May contain issues associated with time, age, and use. Please see images for scans.