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Coosje van Bruggen

Coosje van Bruggen (1942–2009) was a Dutch-American artist whose monumental outdoor sculptures were created in collaboration with Claes Oldenburg. This individual historical profile preserves her authorship alongside that collaboration. The Walker Art Center credits both artists for Spoonbridge and Cherry, dated 1985–1988 and made in aluminum and stainless steel with paint. The Denver Art Museum likewise co-credits Big Sweep, a 2006 sculpture that enlarges a broom and dustpan, while the University of Pennsylvania documents their painted-aluminum Split Button, installed in 1981 before Van Pelt Library. These institution-specific references show the pair’s use of familiar objects at architectural scale across museum and university settings. Collection sites and object dates describe those documented works; they do not establish rights, availability or an active personal studio.

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Representative artist / studio imageImage: commons.wikimedia.org ↗Photograph: Choinowski / CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), via Wikimedia Commons. Reduced for this directory. (as credited at source)

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monumental sculpture, public sculpture
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