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
Artist, American, 1924 - 1997
Artwork overview
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Medium
colored felt-tip pen and colored pencil on photocopied map on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 21.6 x 27.9 cm (8 1/2 x 11 in.)
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Accession
2007.6.333
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Vogel, New York; gift to NGA, 2007.
Associated Names
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), The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art (formerly Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery), University of Texas, Austin, 1997.
From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection (NGA National Lending Service Exhibition), Portland (Oregon) Art Museum, 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.
Inscriptions
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