Site Sculpture Project - Air Marker Piece, The Contrails from Three Jet Airplanes (Flying Simultaneously) Will Mark the Space between Vancouver, B.C. and St. Johns, Newfoundland, Portland Ore., and Halifax N.S., Eureka, Calif. and New York City. (All Planes Will Leave at the Same Time from the West Coast), 1968

Not on View

Medium

colored felt-tip pen and colored pencil on photocopied map on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 21.6 x 27.9 cm (8 1/2 x 11 in.)

Credit Line

Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection

Accession Number

2007.6.333

Artists / Makers

Douglas Huebler (artist) American, 1924 - 1997

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Inscription

across bottom in black ink: SITE SCULPTURE PROJECT - AIR MARKER PIECE / THE CONTRAILS FROM THREE JET AIR PLANES (FLYING SIMULTANEOUSLY) / WILL MARK THE SPACE BETWEEN VANCOUVER, BC AND ST. JOHNS, NEWFOUNDLAND, / PORTLAND ORE, AND HALIFAX, N.S, EUREKA, CALIE AND NEW YORK CITY, / (ALL PLANES WILL LEAVE AT THE SAME TIME FROM THE WEST / COAST) / DESIGNED MAY 1968 / Douglas Huebler

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Vogel, New York; gift to NGA, 2007.

Associated Names

Vogel, Herbert, Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1994: From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, no. 43.

1997: From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection (NGA National Lending Service Exhibition), Portland (Oregon) Art Museum, 1997.

1997: From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection (NGA National Lending Service Exhibition), The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art (formerly Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery), University of Texas, Austin, 1997.

Bibliography

1975: Painting, Drawing and Sculpture of the '60s and the '70s from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1975: p. 11.

1994: From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: no. 43.