Running Fence, Project for Sonoma and Marin Counties, State of California
1976
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View on museum website →Medium
graphite, charcoal, wax crayon, pastel, printed topographic contour map, and technical data, on two sheets of paper in two parts
Dimensions
sheet (top panel): 37.8 x 242.8 cm (14 7/8 x 95 9/16 in.) sheet (bottom panel): 106.4 x 243.4 cm (41 7/8 x 95 13/16 in.) overall size (for both panels): 147 x 244 cm (57 7/8 x 96 1/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of a Private Collector in honor of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel
Accession Number
2001.2.10.a-b
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 ...