“He is the artist of the Free Stamp in Cleveland”
Oldenburg died Monday morning in Manhattan, according to his daughter, Maartje Oldenburg. He had been in poor health since falling and breaking his hip a month ago.
"When I am served a plate of food, I see shapes and forms, and I sometimes don't know whether to eat the food or look at it," he said. In May 2009, a 1976 Oldenburg sculpture,"Typewriter Eraser," sold for a record $2.2 million at an auction of post-war and contemporary art in New York. Oldenburg has two other pieces in the City of Cleveland, the Standing Mitt with Ball and the Giant Toothpaste Tube, which are housed in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
A 1962 New York Times article described it as"a far-out entertainment more sophisticated than the twist, more psychological than a séance and twice as exasperating as a game of charades." One of his early large-scale works was"Lipstick on Caterpillar Tracks," which juxtaposed a large lipstick on tracks resembling those that propel Army tanks. The original — with its undertone suggestion to"make love not war " — was commissioned by students and faculty and installed at Yale University in 1969.
"Batcolumn," Oldenburg told the Tribune,"attempts to be as nondecorative as possible — straightforward, structural and direct. This, I think, is also a part of Chicago: a very factual and realistic object. The final thing, though, was to have it against the sky, that's what it was made for."
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