Coosje Van Bruggen
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Coosje Van Bruggen
Coosje Van Bruggen (1942–2009) was an American artist who, together with her husband Claes Oldenburg, produced sculptural installations and large scale public artworks. Van Bruggen was born in Groningen, the Netherlands, and she received her Bachelor of Arts degree at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in 1964 and a Master of Arts degree in literature at the University of Amsterdam in 1968. She then moved to the US and began working as a curator at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1972. She met Oldenburg in 1976, and the two married in 1977 and began a successful collaborative career in art.
Van Bruggen’s solo and collaborative works include the Clothespin (1976–1976) in Philadelphia, the Shuttlecocks (1994) in Kansas City, the Batcolumn (1977–1981) in Chicago, the Flashlight (1998) in San Diego, and Spoonbridge and Cherry (1985–1988) in Minn
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