Chronology of Works

The following pages are a history of the large scale sculptures created by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen since 1969, including production specifications and where each sculpure now resides.

Photographs of Large Scale Sculptures by Attilio Maranzano, courtesy of Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Braggen, ©1994

Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracts, 1969-74
Cor-ten steel, steel, aluminum, cast resin, painted with polyurethane enamel 23 ft. 6 in. X 24 ft. 101/2 inc. x 10 ft. 11 in. (7.16 x 7.58 x 3.33 m) Samuel F.B. Morse College, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Fabricated by Lippincott, Inc., North Haven, Connecticut, and members of the Colossal Keepsake Corporation. Engineer: J. Robert Jennings.
Commissioned January 1969 by Stuart Wrede and students at the Yale School of Architecture
Originally installed May 15, 1969, in Beinecke Plaza (Hewitt Quandrangle), Yale University Installed and inaugurated October 17, 1974