Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks Artist: Claes Oldenburg (American, born Sweden, 1929–2022, B.A. 1950)

1969, reworked in 1974

Modern and Contemporary Art

On view, Campus Grounds
Medium

Painted steel, aluminum, and fiberglass

Dimensions

264 × 234 × 131 in. (670.6 × 594.4 × 332.7 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the Colossal Keepsake Corporation

Accession Number

1974.86

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Sculpture

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Bibliography
  • Lisa D. Freidman, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, and Yates McKee, Gloria: Allora and Calzadilla, exh. cat. (Munich: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2011), 24, fig. 5
  • Robert Slifkin, "The Allusion of Anxiety: Donald Judd's Untitled (1969)," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2004), 116–18, fig. 3
  • Kay Alexander, Drawing and Painting Activities: Using Masterworks as Inspiration (Glenview, Ill.: Crystal Productions, 2003), n.p., ill
Object copyright
Copyright Claes Oldenburg/Pace Gallery
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

political art

Subject

lipsticks tanks (military vehicles)

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