Giant World Replicas By Claes Oldenburg

Another well known construction is the Free Stamp in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. This Free Stamp has an energetic cult following.
In 2000, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
In 2001, Oldenburg and van Bruggen created 'Dropped Cone', a huge inverted ice cream cone, on top of a shopping center in Cologne, Germany.
His wife died on January 10, 2009, from the effects of breast cancer.