Wrapped Snoopy Doghouse Project for the Charles M. Schulz Museum, Santa Rosa, California
Date2004
MediumHand-collaged lithograph, 33/50
Dimensions24 1/2 x 21 1/4 in.
ClassificationsMarker
Credit LineGift of The Brad Davis Charitable Foundation, Donna and Douglas Lasher, Margaret and Roger Lawson, Susan and John Rathgeber, Marzena and Greg Silpe, and Linda and Michael Tomasso
Object number2010.43
DescriptionChristo, a Bulgarian native, and his late partner Jeanne-Claude temporarily transform environments, buildings, and daily objects with their artwork. From wrapped buildings to miles of fabric fencing such as in the 1976 project "Running Fence", their complex installations involve years of planning with government agencies and engineers. To finance their work, they sell studies like this hand-collaged lithograph. Along with photographs, these studies remain the only tangible records of the work of art long after the piece is dismantled. The Museum has mounted two exhibitions devoted to the work of Christo and Jeanne-Claude. In September 1976, Charles M. Schulz, cartoonist of Peanuts, flew over the length of "Running Fence". As art follows life, Christo's project became the subject of a Peanuts comic strip on November 20, 1978. The circle was completed in October 2003, when Christo and Jeanne Claude unveiled a 3-D version of the last panel of the 1978 comic strip.
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Christo [Javacheff] (1935-2020) and Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009)
1983
