Split Button

Giant aluminum sculpture of a button split in half, with Penn's Van Pelt Library in the background.

The Split Button, an aluminum sculpture by Swedish-American artist Claes Oldenburg and his wife Coosje van Brugge, was installed on College Green in 1981. Learn more by listening to the recording by Lynn Dolby, Director of the Penn Art Collection, or read the transcript below.

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