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Claes Oldenburg
Baked Potato #11963

Not on view
Ceramic or mixed-media sculpture with a rounded, hollow form, glossy charcoal and amber exterior, jagged cream-white rim, and pale yellow interior
Ceramic vessel with irregular, open form; exterior heavily textured with layered brown, black, and gold glazes; jagged white interior walls with yellow accents visible above the roughly torn rim.
Artist or Maker
Claes Oldenburg
Sweden, active United States, 1929-2022
Title
Baked Potato #1
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1963
Medium
Burlap soaked in plaster, painted enamel, jersey stuffed with kapok
Dimensions
Overall: 15 x 25 x 15 in. (38.1 x 63.5 x 38.1 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Robert H. Halff through the Modern and Contemporary Art Council
Accession Number
M.2005.38.30a-c
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Eliel, Carol. John Altoon. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2014.
  • Meyer, James. Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959-1971. Washington: National Gallery of Art; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
  • Wight, Frederick S. 20th Century Sculpture from Southern California Collections. Los Angeles: UCLA Art Galleries, 1972.