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National Gallery of Art - EXHIBITIONS

Past Exhibitions

Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology

February 12-May 7, 1995

Overview: 123 works of sculpture, 58 drawings, and 2 prints were chosen from the National Gallery of Art and other public and private collections. Included in the show were 2 large-scale works created for outdoor sites, Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks and Knife Ship I, created in collaboration with Coosje van Bruggen, the artist's wife, and architect Frank Gehry. This was the first exhibition since 1969 to survey the artist's work.

Curators for the show were Germano Celant, curator of contemporary art at the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, and Marla Prather, associate curator of 20th-century art at the National Gallery.

Attendance: 197,973 (85 days)

Location: East Building, Upper Level and Mezzanine

Catalogue: Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology, by Germano Celant, Dieter Koepplin, and Mark Rosenthal. New York: Solomon Guggenheim Foundation, 1995.

Brochure: Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology, by Marla Prather. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1995.

Other venues:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
June 18-September 3, 1995
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
October 7, 1995-January 21, 1996
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
February 15-May 12, 1996
Hayward Gallery, London
June 6-August 19, 1996

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