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Claes Oldenburg’s proposal to replace the Statue of Liberty
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In 1967 the American artist Claes Oldenburg (1929-2022) made a drawing proposing a new monument to replace the Statue of Liberty. It was part of a series of drawings of fantastical sculptures Oldenburg was working on in the late 1960s called ‘Proposed Colossal Monuments’.