© Claes Oldenburg
Currently not on view
Blueberry Pie à la Mode, Tipped Up, and Spilling,
1996
Claes Oldenburg, 1929–2022; born Stockholm, Sweden; died New York, NY; active New York
2004-264
The husband-and-wife collaborators Oldenburg and Van Bruggen are known for their ironic and whimsical approach to American pop culture, as seen in their brightly colored sculptures of everyday objects. They created multiple sculptural variations on a quintessential staple of American cuisine, the blueberry pie, that range from tabletop to monumental in size. This exploratory sketch, conceived by both artists and executed by Oldenburg, can also be understood as a metaphor for the medium of watercolor, which the seeping and pooling ice cream emulates.
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Title
Blueberry Pie à la Mode, Tipped Up, and Spilling
Dates
1996
Maker
Medium
Crayon and watercolor
Dimensions
41.0 x 26.8 cm (16 1/8 x 10 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Kathleen Compton Sherrerd Fund for Acquisitions in American Art
Object Number
2004-264
Signatures
Initialed and dated in graphite, lower right: CO Cos | '96
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Type
Materials
Subject
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2004," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 64 (2005): p. 91-135., p. 115
- Johanna Burton et al., Pop art: contemporary perspectives, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT: distributed by Yale University Press, 2007), p. 137 (illus.)
