Surrounded Islands, Project for Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida
1983
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View on museum website →Medium
graphite, charcoal, pastel, wax crayon, enamel paint, aerial photograph by Wolfgang Volz, and fabric sample, on two sheets of paper in two parts
Dimensions
sheet (left panel): 164.2 x 106.2 cm (64 5/8 x 41 13/16 in.) sheet (right panel): 164.7 x 37.9 cm (64 13/16 x 14 15/16 in.) overall size (for both panels): 165.1 x 147.3 cm (65 x 58 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
2001.2.11.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 ...