The Umbrellas, Joint Project for Japan and U.S.A.
1991
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View on museum website →Medium
pastel, enamel paint, graphite, colored pencil, wax crayon, aerial photograph with topographic contour map, technical data, and fabric sample, on two sheets of paperboard in two parts
Dimensions
sheet (left panel): 77.5 x 30.5 cm (30 1/2 x 12 in.) framed (left panel): 78.2 x 31.3 x 4.3 cm (30 13/16 x 12 5/16 x 1 11/16 in.) sheet (right panel): 77.5 x 66.7 cm (30 1/2 x 26 1/4 in.) framed (right panel): 78.2 x 67.4 x 4.3 cm (30 13/16 x 26 9/16 x 1 11/16 in.) overall size (for both panels): 77.5 x 99.7 cm (30 1/2 x 39 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
Accession Number
1999.4.2.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 ...