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Identification and Creation

Object Number
CW2001.810.8
People
Christopher Wilmarth, American (Sonoma, CA 1943 - 1987 New York, NY)
Title
Seventh Page of "The Hunger Artist"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook page, drawing
Date
1963
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/100482

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
31.8 x 24 cm (12 1/2 x 9 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: across recto of page, graphite: SELECTED BY THE PUBLIC, / USUALLY BUTCHERS STRANGELY / ENOUGH, AND IT WAS THEIR / TASK TO WATCH THE HUNGER / ARTIST DAY AND NIGHT, THREE / OF THEM AT AT TIME IN CASE / HE SHOULD HAVE SOME SECRET / RECOURSE TO NOURISHMENT. / THIS WAS NOTHING BUT A / FORMALITY, INSTITUTED TO / REASSURE THE MASSES, FOR / THE INITIATES KNEW WELL / ENOUGH THAT DURING HIS / FAST THE ARTIST WOULD / NEVER IN ANY CIRCUM- / STANCES, NOT EVEN UNDER / FORCIBLE COMPULSION, / SWALLOW THE SMALLEST / MORSEL OF FOOD, THE / HONOR OF HIS PROFESSION / 7

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Christopher Wilmarth Archive, Gift of Susan Wilmarth-Rabineau
Copyright
© Estate of Christopher Wilmarth
Accession Year
2001
Object Number
CW2001.810.8
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
As of 04/25/02:
13/16 pages with drawings

Subjects and Contexts

  • Wilmarth

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