Alphabet/Good Humor by Claes Oldenberg is a rather bizarre piece of artwork. It was created using cat resin, covered with enamel and bronze. It is said to take the shape of a dripping ice cream bar, to show how the english language is slowly melting away as it is replaced by slang terms. Claes Oldenburg was born on January 28, 1929 in Stockholm, the son of Gösta Oldenburg and his wife Sigrid Elisabeth née Lindforss. His father was then a Swedish diplomat stationed in New York and in 1936 was appointed Consul General of Sweden to Chicago where Oldenburg grew up, attending the Latin School of Chicago. He studied literature and art history at Yale University from 1946 to 1950, then returned to Chicago where he took classes at The School of the