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Light & VerityLipstick removedAn iconic sculpture leaves Morse College. After fifty years in relative peace in the courtyard of Morse College, one of Yale’s most iconic sculptures had a tumultuous 2025. Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, a 1969 sculpture by Claes Oldenburg ’50, was removed from Morse for conservation work in July, then returned to the college in late October with new paint and freshly treated surfaces. But it was removed again in early December after the letters “ATB” were found etched in the sculpture. Morse head of college Catherine Panter-Brick told students that the sculpture will have its permanent home in the sculpture garden of the Yale University Art Gallery. The sculpture garden also houses Alexander Calder’s 1960 Gallows and Lollipops, which stood for years in Beinecke Plaza.
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