Wrapped Walk Ways, Project for Loose Park, Kansas City, Missouri
1978
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collage with photograph by Wolfgang Volz, enamel paint, graphite, wax crayon, ballpoint pen, and tape on paperboard
Dimensions
Overall: 38.1 x 23.8 cm (15 x 9 3/8 in.) framed: 38.8 x 24.9 x 3.3 cm (15 1/4 x 9 13/16 x 1 5/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
Accession Number
2001.9.10
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 ...