Coosje van Bruggen, art lecturer, dies at 66
Coosje van Bruggen, a senior lecturer at the School of Art from 1996 to 1997, renowned for the colorful large-scale sculptures she created with her husband, artist Claes Oldenburg ’50, died on Saturday at her home in Los Angeles. The critic, art historian and artist was 66 and battling metastatic breast cancer.
Although her time at Yale was short, her husband’s statue, “Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks,” still stands in the Morse College courtyard as a testament to the monumental Pop art sculptures the pair made of seemingly ordinary objects. Frank Keil, master of Morse...
