Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 1972-1976
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color photograph by Wolfgang Volz mounted on aluminum panel
Dimensions
overall: 40 x 49.9 cm (15 3/4 x 19 5/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
Accession Number
2001.9.14
Art Historical Context
Christo and Jeanne-Claude'sRunning Fence* (1972-1976) was a monumental temporary environmental artwork that stretched 24 miles across the rolling hills of Sonoma and Counties, California. Composed of shimmering white nylon fabric panels suspended between steel posts and ropes, snaked from the Pacific Ocean, creating a dynamic dialogue between human intervention and natural landscape. Completed after four years of meticulous planning, legal battles for permits, and community engagement, the piece existed for just two weeks in September 1976 before being dismantled—a hallmark of the artists' phi...