Soft Shuttlecock, 1995
Steel, aluminum, wood, fiber-reinforced plastic, expanded polystyrene and polyethylene foams, canvas, rope; painted with latex
Nosecone, approximately 3 ft. high (0.9 m) x 6 ft. (1.8 m) diameter
nine feathers, each approximately 26 ft. (7.9 m) long x 6 ft. 6 in. (2 m) wide
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Photo by David Heald, courtesy of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Fabricated by: Merrifield-Roberts Inc., Bristol, Rhode Island
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Partial gift of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Originally installed at Guggenheim Museum, New York for the exhibition Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology, October 1995-January 1996
Temporarily installed at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain for the opening exhibition, October 1997; at Museo Correr, Venice, Italy for the exhibition Claes Oldenburg Coosje van Bruggen, May-October, 1999; and again at Guggenheim Museum, New York for the exhibition The Global Guggenheim: Selections from the Extended Collection, February-April, 2001