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Recent Acquisitions: Claes Oldenburg, Blue Saxophone, 1992

  • Claes Thure Oldenburg, Blue Saxophone, 1992, Crayon and watercolor on paper, Gift of Hugh J. Freund, Class of 1967; W.2001.43.1. © Claes Oldenburg

    LEFT Claes Thure Oldenburg, Blue Saxophone, 1992, Crayon and watercolor on paper, Gift of Hugh J. Freund, Class of 1967; W.2001.43.1. © Claes Oldenburg

  • Raymond Jennings Saunders, Soda Pop, 1974, Mixed medium collage on paper, Gift of Hugh J. Freund, Class of 1967; P.981.71.

    LEFT Raymond Jennings Saunders, Soda Pop, 1974, Mixed medium collage on paper, Gift of Hugh J. Freund, Class of 1967; P.981.71.

  • Claes Thur Oldenburg, Store Window: Bow, Hats, Heart, Shirt, 29 [cents], 1973, Ten color lithograph on J. Green paper, Museum Purchase; PR. 975.69. © Claes Oldenburg

    LEFT Claes Thure Oldenburg, Store Window: Bow, Hats, Heart, Shirt, 29 [cents], 1973, Ten color lithograph on J. Green paper, Museum Purchase; PR. 975.69. © Claes Oldenburg

Hood Quarterly, summer 2003

Blue Saxophone (1992), a vibrant and highly characteristic watercolor by Claes Oldenburg (born 1929), is the thirteenth work by the renowned Swedish-born Pop artist to enter the Hood's permanent collection. Oldenburg is perhaps best known today for the monumental public sculpture in which everyday objects, like the musical instrument depicted here, are subjected to comic distortions of scale and gesture. Oldenburg has taken great pleasure in scandalizing art world officials and the general public alike, once asserting "I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum."

Blue Saxophone is part of a dazzling group of contemporary graphic art works—including significant objects by Dorothea Rockburne, Renée Cox, Joe Zucker, and conceptual artists Komar and Melamid—given recently to the museum by Hugh J. Freund '67.

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Written June 01, 2003