2000.169: Nine Clearings for a Standing Man

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2000.169

People

Christopher Wilmarth, American (Sonoma, CA 1943 - 1987 New York, NY)

Title

Nine Clearings for a Standing Man

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1973

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/183907

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and graphite on layered cream wove paper

Dimensions

sight: 60.8 x 45.7 cm (23 15/16 x 18 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, l.r.: CMW 73
• inscription: l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: Nine Clearings for a Standing Man

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Christopher Wilmarth, by descent; to Susan Wilmarth-Rabineau, New York, New York, 1987, sold; to the Harvard University Art Museums, through the [Nielsen Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts], 2000.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund

Copyright

© Estate of Christopher Wilmarth

Accession Year

2000

Object Number

2000.169

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Steven Henry Madoff and Nancy Milford, Christopher Wilmarth: Light and Gravity, Princeton University Press (Princeton, New Jersey and Oxford, England, 2004), repr. pl. 31, p. 35

Exhibition History

• Rooms, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, 05/20/2000 - 06/17/2000

Subjects and Contexts

• Wilmarth

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