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Wrapped Walk Ways (Project for Jacob L. Loose Memorial Park, Kansas City, Missouri)
Wrapped Walk Ways (Project for Jacob L. Loose Memorial Park, Kansas City, Missouri)

Wrapped Walk Ways (Project for Jacob L. Loose Memorial Park, Kansas City, Missouri)

Artist Christo (American, born Bulgaria, 1935 - 2020)
Artist Wolfgang Volz (photograph) (German, born 1948)
Date1978
MediumGraphite, wax crayon, enamel paint, and photograph on paper
DimensionsOverall: 15 × 9 1/2 inches (38.1 × 24.13 cm)
Credit LineGift of The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation
Object number2024.68.6
SignedSigned and dated lower left
On View
Not on view
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DescriptionThis photograph is centered in the middle of a large white board and displays a park with paths covered by a drawing/painting of a saffron cloth. A path enters the vertically oriented composition from the left and crosses over to the right side. It is joined by another branch of the path on the right then curves back to the left as it recedes into the background toward the top of the composition. A few bushes dot the field beside the path in the foreground. In the distance, two people walk on the grass beside the pathway. Many trees rise from the background. There are handwritten notes on the top and bottom of the composition.Exhibition History

Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways, Work in Progress, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, 1978.

Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways, Kansas City Missouri, 1977-78, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, England, 1979.

Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways, Documentation Exhibition, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, US, 1979.

Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways, Work in Progress, Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina, USA, 1979.

Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways, Documentation Exhibition, Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, 1980.

Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways, Kansas City, Missouri, 1977-78, Documentation Exhibition, Community Gallery of Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, 1981.

Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways, Kansas City, Missouri, 1977-78, Documentation Exhibition, The University of Texas, El Paso, Texas USA, 1981.

Wrapped Walk Ways, Kansas City, Missouri 1977-78, Documentation Exhibition, Carnegie Hall, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA, 1982.
Provenance

The artists, New York, NY, 1978–2024;

 

Gifted by The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation (New York, NY) to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, 2024.

Published References
Copyright© The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation / The Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York
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