Coosje van Bruggen and Claes Oldenburg

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Coosje van Bruggen and Claes Oldenburg

Boules with Eventail, 2004

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Coosje van Bruggen and Claes Oldenburg

Study for Plantoir, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, 1999

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Biography

Timeline

1929
Claes Oldenburg: Born in Stockholm, Sweden
1942
Coosje Van Bruggen: Born in Groningen, The Netherlands
2009
Coosje Van Bruggen: Died in Los Angeles, CA

Exhibitions

2016
Claes Oldenburg/Coosje Van Bruggen Exhibitions in 2016:
The Ordinary Must Not Be Dull: Claes Oldenburg’s Soft Sculptures, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Saint Louis, MO
2015
Claes Oldenburg/Coosje Van Bruggen Exhibitions in 2015:
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Things Around the House, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
Claes Oldenburg: Large-Scale Prints and Small-Scale Multiples, 1966–1976, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
2012
Claes Oldenburg/Coosje Van Bruggen Exhibitions in 2012:
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul
Claes Oldenburg: Strange Eggs, The Menil Collection, Houston
Claes Oldenburg, Pace Prints, New York
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Theater and Installation 1985–1990: Il Corso del Coltello and The European Desktop, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Claes Oldenburg: The Sixties, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria, February 3–May 28, 2012. Traveled to: Museum Ludwig, Cologne, June 22–September 30, 2012; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, October 30, 2012–February 17, 2013; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, as Claes Oldenburg: The Street and The Store, Mouse Museum/Ray Gun Wing, April 14–August 5, 2013; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, September 14, 2013–January 12, 2014
2010
Big Sign… Little Building, curated by Marta Kuzma, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo, Norway
Modern Drawings: Tracing 100 Years, Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD
2009
Drawings On Site: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, The Menil Collection, Houton, TX
Claes Oldenburg/Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
If we could Imagine, Glenstone, Potomac, MD
2008 - 2009
Heavy Metal, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany
2008
Claes Oldenburg: The Store, and Later, El Sourdog Hex, Berlin, Germany

Public Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Chinati Foundation/La Fundación Chinati, Marfa, Texas
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Denver Art Museum, Colorado
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, California
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Hall Family Foundation on permanent loan to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
IVAM Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, California
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
Ludwig Museum Budapest der Ungarischen Nationalgalerie, Budapest, Hungary
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon
Museu Serralves, Porto
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Stanford University Museum, California
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Tate, London
Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Literature

2017
Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965 (exhibition catalogue). New York and Munich: Grey Art Gallery, New York University; Delmonico Books Prestel, 2017: 128–31, 208–13, illustrated; UBS Art Collection: To Art Its Freedom. Text by Mary Rozell. Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag CmbH, 2016: 106, illustrated.
2016
“Claes Oldenburg.” In Donald Judd Writings. New York: Judd Foundations, 2016: 180–4; Cohen, John. Cheap Rents…and de Kooning. Text by John Elderfield. Göttingen: Steidl, 2015: 131, illustrated; The Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2016: 25–31, illustrated; Fuji Xerox Print collection (exhibition catalogue). Yokohama and Tokyo: Yokohama Museum of Art; Tokyo Publishing House, 2016; Galerie Templon 50 Years. Paris: Galerie Daniel Templon, 2016: 199, illustrated; Getlein, Mark and Annabel Howard. Art Visionaries. London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd., 2016: 188–91, illustrated; Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959–1971 (exhibition catalogue). Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2016: cat. 37–41, pp. 142–4, illustrated; The Ordinary Must Not Be Dull: Claes Oldenburg’s Soft Sculptures (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Tamara H. Schenkenberg and Claes Oldenburg. Saint Louis, Missouri: Pulitzer Arts Foundation, 2016; Sculpture on the Move 1946–2016 (exhibition catalogue). Basel: Kunstmuseum Basel, 2016: 60–1, illustrated; Stein, Judith E. Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
2015
A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense: A Portrait of Robert Fraser (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Arne Glimcher, Brian Clarke, and Harriet Vyner. London: Pace London, 2015: illustrated; Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Things Around the House (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Claes Oldenburg and Maartje Oldenburg. New York: Paula Cooper Gallery, 2015.
2014
Eliel, Carol S. John Altoon (exhibition catalogue). Los Angeles and New York: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Prestel Verlag, 2014: 112, illustrated; Everything falls faster than an anvil (exhibition catalogue). Text by Dave Hickey. London: Pace London, 2014: illustrated; From Picasso to Jasper Johns. Aldo Crommelynck’s Workshop (exhibition catalogue). Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2014: 65, illustrated; George, Herbert. The Elements of Sculpture: A Viewer’s Guide. London and New York: Phaidon, 2014: 88–9, illustrated; Newman, Amy. Challenging Art: Artforum 1962–1974. New York: Soho Press, 2014; Re-View: Onnasch Collection (exhibition catalogue). London: Snoeck; Hauser & Wirth, 2014: 109, 186–95, illustrated; The Shaped Canvas, Revisited (exhibition catalogue). New York: Luxembourg & Dayan, 2014; Taylor, Brandon. After Constructivism. London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014: 200, illustrated.
2013
404 E 14 (exhibition catalogue). New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 2013: illustrated; Albrecht Dürer to Claes Oldenburg: Collecting at the Cornell, 1990–2010 (exhibition catalogue). Text by Patricia C. Pongracz. Winter Park, Florida: Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, 2013: 17, illustrated; American Pop Art from the John and Kimiko Powers Collection (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Nobuyuki Konishi, Yukihiro Hirayoshi, Hana Takigami and Yusuke Minami. Tokyo: The National Center, 2013: 84–99,106, illustrated; Atkins, Robert. Art Speak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present. New York and London: Abbeville Press Publishers, 2013: 204, illustrated; Blunt, Hannah W. and Fronia Simpson, ed. The Lunder Collection: A Gift of Art to Colby College (exhibition catalogue). Waterville, Maine: Colby College Museum of Art, 2013: 17, 344, 345, illustrated; Celant, Germano, Thomas Demand, Rem Koolhaas and Harald Szeemann. When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013 (exhibition catalogue). Milan: Ca’ Corner della Regina and Fondazione Prada, 2013: 69–71, illustrated; Claes Oldenburg Writing on the Side (exhibition catalogue). Achim Hochdörfer, Maartje Oldenburg, and Barbara Schröder, editors. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2013; The Contemporary Art Masters. Japan: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, 2013: 198, illustrated; Delong, Lea Rosson, ed. Des Moines Art Center Collects. Des Moines, Iowa: Des Moines Art Center, 2013: 244, 245, illustrated; De Young: Inside and Out. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2013: 48, illustrated; Ferriani, Barbara and Marina Pugliese, eds. Ephemeral Monuments: History and Conservation of Installation. Text by Germano Celant. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2013: 49, illustrated; Its Surreal Thing: The Temptation of Objects (exhibition catalogue). Lincoln: Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2013, illustrated; The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art (exhibition catalogue). Text by John Wilmerding. New York: Acquavella Galleries, 2013: illustrated; Strange Eggs. Text by Michelle White. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013; Van Wyk, Gary. Pop Art: 50 Works of Art You Should Know. Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2013: 112–3, illustrated; Welchman, John C. Sculpture and the Vitrine. Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013: illustrated; Wells, Rachel. Scale in Contemporary Sculpture. Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013: illustrated; Your Museum Transformed. Saint Louis, Missouri: Saint Louis Art Museum, 2013: 37, illustrated.