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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1996.111
People
Christopher Wilmarth, American (Sonoma, CA 1943 - 1987 New York, NY)
Title
Panoply--"CC" Rider--Panoply's Angels
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1968-1973
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311862

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and staples on layered and cut translucent vellum paper
Dimensions
34.1 x 48.3 cm (13 7/16 x 19 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: CMW 73
  • inscription: l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: PANOPLY--"CC" RIDER --PANOPLYS ANGELS 1968-73; lower right: CMW 73
  • inscription: backing board of frame, blue ball-point pen: 1973 Panoply, Panoplys angel, C C rider, deep drawing
    [possibly in artist's hand]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Estate of Christopher Wilmarth. [Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York]. Private Collector, California. Sold to the Harvard University Art Museums through [Kasumi Sonoyama, New York, New York], 1996.

NOTE: Provenance information provided by vendor.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Copyright
© Estate of Christopher Wilmarth
Accession Year
1996
Object Number
1996.111
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Christopher Wilmarth Drawings 1963-1987, auct. cat., Hirschl & Adler Modern Gallery (New York, NY, 1989), p. 39, no. 12
  • Steven Henry Madoff and Nancy Milford, Christopher Wilmarth: Light and Gravity, Princeton University Press (Princeton, New Jersey and Oxford, England, 2004), repr. pl. 57, p. 56

Exhibition History

  • Christopher Wilmarth Drawings 1963-1987, Hirschl & Adler Modern Gallery, 06/01/1989 - 07/28/1989
  • Modern Master Drawings, Anthony Ralph Gallery, Los Angeles, 02/01/1992 - 02/29/1992
  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1940 to 2000, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/03/2000 - 08/27/2000

Subjects and Contexts

  • Wilmarth

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