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    Spoonbridge and Cherry - Wikipedia
    LocationMinneapolis Sculpture Garden, Minneapolis
    ArtistClaes Oldenburg · Coosje van Bruggen
    Year1988
    MediumStainless steel and aluminum sculpture
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    History

    In the mid-1980s, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, commissioned a piece of work from married couple Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, whose first artistic collaboration had come in 1976. The work, … See more

    Design

    Spoonbridge and Cherry measures 30 by 52 by 13 feet (9 m × 15.7 m × 4.1 m) and straddles a small pond built in the shape of a linden tree seed, evoking the lindens in the surrounding park. The pond's shores were lined with … See more

    Reception

    The editors of Phaidon Press wrote favorably of the sculpture's placement in a park frequented by families, writing that the "surprise of finding a oversized fruit spooned up in a park, together with its curved for… See more

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