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The original iteration had a soft, inflated lipstick section, and wooden treads. The sculpture deteriorated and was removed by Oldenburg in March 1970. It was redone in weathering steel and fiberglass, and reinstalled at Morse College, on October 17, 1974. As of 2019, Wrede was leading an effort to
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Stuart Wrede and a group of fellow Yale architecture students raised money under the name of the Colossal Keepsake Corporation of Connecticut, working in collaboration with Oldenburg, who charged no fee for his work. The piece was installed on the campus on May 15, 1969, in
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740 cm × 760 cm × 330 cm (292 in × 299 in × 131 in)
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move the piece back to its original location in Beinecke Plaza.
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Claes Oldenburg
Yale University
Connecticut
Coordinates
41°18′46″N 72°55′48″W / 41.31291500°N 72.93009800°W / 41.31291500; -72.93009800
Yale University
weathering steel
Claes Oldenburg
Morse College
Yale University
Beinecke Plaza
Guggenheim Museum
National Gallery of Art
List of works by Oldenburg and van Bruggen
'Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks' by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen – Virtual Globetrotting
"Public art at Yale – Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks"
Archived
Wayback Machine
"Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks (Sculpture)"


Yale Alumni Magazine: "Claes Oldenburg’s Lipstick", (Feb 2000)
Archived
Wayback Machine
"Yale Alumni Magazine: Claes Oldenburg's Lipstick (Feb 2000)"
Frieze Magazine, "Tom Burr"
Archived
Wayback Machine
The Yale Herald, "Sculptures at Yale: Not just for peeing on"

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