NEW YORK — Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, who turned the mundane into the monumental through his outsized sculptures of a baseball bat, a clothespin, and even a stamp in Cleveland, has died at age 93.
The 48-foot-tall maroon, red, and gray “Free Stamp,’’ envisioned in 1985 by Oldenburg and van Bruggen, was intended to adorn a platform facing Public Square at the base of the Sohio Building, ...
Although the sculptor for the "Inverted Q," the popular bright pink art piece at the Akron Art Musuem, has died, he left his artistic touch through several pieces in Northeast Ohio. Claes Oldenburg ...
NEW YORK (AP / WJW) — Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, who designed Cleveland’s iconic “Free” Stamp sculpture, has died at age 93. He was known for turning the mundane into the monumental through his ...