Memory Form II
1997-1998
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View on museum website →Medium
archival board, wood, encaustic, black paint
Dimensions
overall: 34.29 × 65.41 × 29.85 cm (13 1/2 × 25 3/4 × 11 3/4 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Stephen Bennett Phillips in honor of Sandra Deane Christenberry
Accession Number
2021.94.1
About the Artist
William Christenberry
William Christenberry (1936–2016) was an American artist whose career-long obsession with a small region of rural Alabama transformed the documentation of a place into one of the most sustained and poetic bodies of work in contemporary American art. Born in Hale County, Alabama — the same landscape made famous by James Agee and Walker Evans in their 1941 book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men — Christe...