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Identification and Creation

Object Number
CW2001.810.7
People
Christopher Wilmarth, American (Sonoma, CA 1943 - 1987 New York, NY)
Title
Sixth Page of "The Hunger Artist" with a Drawing of a Swivel Caster Wheel
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, sketchbook page
Date
1963
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/100547

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: HALF SHUT EYES / AND THEN TAKING A / SIP FROM A TINY GLASS / OF WATER TO MOISTEN / HIS LIPS. / BESIDES CASUAL ONLOOKERS THERE / WERE ALSO RELAYS OF / PERMANENT WATCHERS / 6

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
CW2001.810.7
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

Publication History

  • Steven Henry Madoff and Nancy Milford, Christopher Wilmarth: Light and Gravity, Princeton University Press (Princeton, New Jersey and Oxford, England, 2004), p. 102, repr. pl. 114, p. 102

Subjects and Contexts

  • Wilmarth

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