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Tate Gallery, Claes Oldenburg, exh. cat. (London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1970), 57, cat. 66 (ill.).
Barbara Haskell, Claes Oldenburg: Object into Monument, exh. cat. (Pasadena: Pasadena Art Museum, 1971), 5, 10, 13 (ill.).
Lawrence Alloway and Marco Livingstone, Pop Art: U.S.A. - U.K., American and British Artists of the ’60s in the ’80s, exh. cat. (Japan : Pop Art U.S.A.-U.K. Catalogue Committee, 1987), 55, cat. 14 (color ill), 112.
Achim Hochdörfer and Barbara Schröder, Claes Oldenburg: The Sixties, exh. cat. (Munich, Presel Publishing, 2012), 179 (color ill.).
Paula Cooper Gallery,Things Around the House: Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen, exh. cat. (New York: Paula Cooper Gallery, 2015), 30 (color ill.), 34.
David Isaacson, “Claes Oldenburg’s Chicago: A pop art luminary and his hometown,” Chicago Reader, July 13, 2023, (color ill.), https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/claes-oldenburg-chicago-batcolumn/
Pasadena Art Museum, Claes Oldenburg: Object into Monument, Dec. 7, 1971–Feb. 6, 1972, no cat. no.; Berkeley, University Art Museum, University of California, Mar. 1–Apr. 9, 1972; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, May 12–June 18, 1972; Fort Worth Art Center Museum, July 13–Aug. 20,1972; Des Moines Art Center, Sept. 18–Oct. 29, 1972; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Nov. 17–Dec. 27, 1972; Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 17–Feb. 25, 1973.
Tokyo Odakyu Grand Gallery, Pop Art: U.S.A. - U.K., American and British Artists of the ’60s in the ’80s, July 24–Aug. 18, 1987, cat. 14; Osaka, Daimaru Museum, Sept 9–18, 1987; The Funabashi Seibu Museum of Art, Oct. 30–Nov. 17, 1987; Yokohama, Sogo Museum of Art, Nov. 19–Dec. 13, 1987.
New York, Zwirner and Wirth, Claes Oldenburg: Selected Early Work, Oct. 29, 2005–Jan. 2, 2006, no cat. no.
Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, Claes Oldenburg: The Sixties. Feb. 4–May 28, 2012, no. cat. no. Cologne, Museum Ludwig, June 22–Sept. 30, 2012; Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, Oct. 30, 2012–Feb. 17, 2013; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Sept. 13, 2013–Jan. 12, 2014.
New York, Paula Cooper Gallery Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Things Around the House, Nov. 7–Dec. 12, 2015, no cat. no.
Collection of Claes Oldenburg and Coosge van Bruggen; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.
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