Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, Colorado
2000
Artist, American, born Bulgaria, 1935 - 2020
Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite, pastel, charcoal, wax crayon, drawn topographic contour map, and tape, on two sheets of paper in two parts
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Credit Line
Gift of a Private Collector in honor of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel
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Dimensions
sheet (top panel): 37.7 x 164.8 cm (14 13/16 x 64 7/8 in.)
sheet (bottom panel): 106 x 164.8 cm (41 3/4 x 64 7/8 in.)
overall size (for both panels): 147 x 165 cm (57 7/8 x 64 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2001.2.7.a-b
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Copyright
© Christo 2000
Associated Artworks
Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, Colorado [top panel]
Christo
2000
Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, Colorado [bottom panel]
Christo
2000
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Private collection; gift 2001 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2002
Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the Vogel Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, 2002-2003, no. 61.
Bibliography
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, no. 61.
Inscriptions
top panel, lower right in black wax crayon: Christo 2000; left verso of support in black crayon: (layout) (copyright) Christo 2000 / 13A / ONE WORK IN 2 ITEMS: THESE 2 ITEMS ARE / ONE WORK, THEY MUST NOT BE SEPARATED / AND BE HUNG ACCORDING TO THIS LAY OUT; lower panel, upper left verso of support in black crayon: (layout) (copyright) Christo 2000 / 13B / ONE WORK IN 2 ITEMS: THESE 2 ITEMS ARE / ONE WORK, THEY MUST NOT BE SEPARATED / AND BE HUNG ACCORDING TO THIS LAY OUT.
Wikidata ID
Q64540007