A Closer Look
Closer Look is open to everyone curious about art! Learning and Community Engagement staff invites participants to look closely at a single artwork in the Norton’s Collection. We discuss the artwork, its potential meanings, and participants’ viewpoints.
A Closer Look: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Tuesday, March 19 / 1PM-2PM
Tuesday, March 19 / 1 pm
Friday, March 22 / 6 pm
Typewriter Eraser, Scale X, 1999, by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Claes Oldenburg (American, born Sweden, 1929)
Coosje van Bruggen (American, born Netherlands, 1942-2009)
Typewriter Eraser, Scale X, 1999
Painted stainless steel and fiberglass
Edition 1 of 4
232 × 143 1/2 × 140 1/4 in. (589.3 × 364.5 × 356.2 cm)
Gift of The Heyman Family, In Memory of Samuel J. Heyman, 2017.164
© 1999 Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Support for this program was provided by the Maurer Family Fund for Arts Education Endowment.