Soft Drainpipe - Red (Hot) Version
1967
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vinyl lined with canvas, filled with expanded polystyrene chips, on painted metal stand
Dimensions
overall (drainpipe): 304.8 x 152.4 x 114.3 cm (120 x 60 x 45 in.) overall (stand, height): 243.9 cm (96 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Gift in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1990.75.1
About the Artist
Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg, born January 28, 1929, in Stockholm, Sweden, to diplomat Gösta Oldenburg and Sigrid Elisabeth Lindforss, spent much of his childhood abroad before his family settled in Chicago in 1936, where his father served as Swedish consul general. He attended the Latin School of Chicago, then studied literature and art history at Yale University from 1946 to 1950, followed by classes at the ...