Running Fence

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Christo

Title

Running Fence

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1976

Medium

Collage of parachute fabric stapled to cut wove card, with cut and pasted photocopies, on white wove paper, and pastel, crayons, and charcoal, on wood pulp laminate board

Inscriptions

Signed recto, lower left corner, in black crayon: "Christo 1976"; inscribed lower left, in black crayon: "RUNNING FENCE PROJECT for Sonoma County and Marin County, STATE of California" (plus other text integrated with design)

Dimensions

56.1 × 71.2 cm (22 1/8 × 28 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1991.694

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