Running Fence, Project for the West Coast - USA
1972
Artist, American, born Bulgaria, 1935 - 2020
Christo
Artwork overview
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Medium
collage with wax crayon, graphite, ballpoint pen, brown wove paper and typed description on paperboard
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 50.9 x 33.1 cm (20 1/16 x 13 1/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1992.7.2
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1975
Clocktower
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 and tour, 1975-1976
1977
Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, November 11, 1977-January 1, 1978
1980
Venice Biennale
1986
Drawings from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Department of Art Galleries, Little Rock and tour, 1986-1987
2002
Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the Vogel Collection, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 2002, no. 14.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the Vogel Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, 2002-2003, no. 14, as Running Fence, Project for the West Coast - USA.
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. 10.
1977
Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 1977, 50.
1986
Drawings from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Department of Art Galleries, Little Rock, 1986, 16
2002
Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the Vogel Collection. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, 2002-2003.
Inscriptions
across bottom in graphite: Running Fence / project For THE WEST COAST - USA) length - 18 - 20 miles. Christo 72; lower left in graphite: For Dorothy and / Herbert Vogel; lower center typed: Christo October 1972.; written and typed notations overall
Wikidata ID
Q64539942