Air Package, Project for the Garden of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City
1968
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polyethylene, rope, twine, Plexiglas globe, wood, and paint
Dimensions
overall: 42 x 61 x 73.5 cm (16 9/16 x 24 x 28 15/16 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of a Private Collector in honor of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel
Accession Number
2001.2.3
About the Artist
Christo
Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, born on June 13, 1935, in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, emerged from a childhood marked by wartime upheaval and a bohemian family environment that nurtured his artistic inclinations. The second of three sons to a textile manufacturer father and a politically active mother who worked at Sofia's Academy of Fine Arts, Christo received private art lessons from a young age, with his ...