COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Big Sweep
Image View:
General view
Creator:
Claes Oldenburg (American sculptor, born 1929); Coosje van Bruggen (American sculptor, born 1942)
Location:
repository: Denver Art Museum (Denver, Colorado, United States)
Date:
completed 2004 (creation); installed 2006 (other)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Pop; Twenty-first century
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
sculpture
Material:
steel: stainless steel; aluminum; fiber-reinforced plastic; acrylic urethane paint
Technique:
construction (assembling); metalworking
Measurements:
35 ft (height)
Subjects:
contemporary (1960 to present); domestic life; genre
Description:
Big Sweep, a 35-foot broom and dustpan made of painted metal, will be located on the south side of 13th Avenue at the base of the "prow" of the new Libeskind-designed Hamilton Building. Completed in 2004, Big Sweep was commissioned by the Museum in 1999 with support from multiple donors. The Museum owns three other works by Oldenburg and van Bruggen, including Clothespin, which is on view in the modern and contemporary galleries. (Source: Denver Art Museum [website]; http://www.denverartmuseum.org/)
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Three
Identifier:
6A1-BCJ-BS-A1
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Big Sweep
