Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929)

Orange and Glass

Details
Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929)
Orange and Glass
initialed and dated 'C.O. 1961' on the reverse
muslin soaked in plaster over wire frame, painted with enamel
16 1/4 x 14 x 5¾in. (41.3 x 35.5 x 14.6cm.)
This work was originally titled Orange Juice.
Provenance
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York.
Literature
C. Oldenburg, Store Days: Documents from The Store (1961) and Ray Gun Theater (1962), New York 1967, p. 31.
Exhibited
New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, Environments, Situations, Spaces, May-June 1961.
New York, Ray Gun Mfg. Co., The Store, Dec. 1961-Jan. 1962, no. 28. The Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, 1961, Apr.-May 1962.
College Park, University of Maryland Art Gallery; New York, The Finch College Museum of Art, and Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Private Collection of Martha Jackson, June 1973-Feb. 1974, no. 101.
West Nyack, The Rockland Center for the Arts and Rockland Community College, and Albany, University Art Gallery, Works From The Martha Jackson Gallery Collection, Nov. 1974-Mar. 1975, no. 47 (illustrated).
Cologne, Museen der Stadt Köln, Westkunst: Zeitgenoissische Kunst seit 1939, May-Aug. 1981, p. 453, no. 646 (illustrated).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Making of a New Aesthetic: The American Avant Garde, 1958-1964, Sept. 1983-Feb. 1984.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, BLAM! The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism and Performance 1958-1964, Sept.-Dec. 1984.
Buffalo, Anderson Gallery, Selections from the Collection, Part I, Oct.-Nov. 1991, no. 33.
Scottsdale Center for the Arts; New York, Equitable Gallery; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum; Medford, Tufts University Art Gallery, and Miami, Florida International University Art Museum, Neo-Dada Redefining Art 1958-1962, Nov. 1994-Mar. 1996 p. 122, no. 60 (illustrated).