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Identification and Creation

Object Number
CW2001.1846
People
Christopher Wilmarth, American (Sonoma, CA 1943 - 1987 New York, NY)
Title
Miscellaneous original reviews, Cooper Union grade reports, other papers, 1964-1981
Classification
Archival Material
Work Type
archival material
Date
1964-1981
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/95839

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
CW2001.1846
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
1) Wilmarth's Cooper Union grade report for 3 years in original envelope, postmarked June 3, 1964.

2) Wilmarth's Cooper Union grade report for 4 years in original envelope, postmarked February 1, 1965.

3) Mimeograph of Grace Glueck's "Fun and Funky at the Whitney" from The New York Times of 11 December 1966. Very worn copy, difficult to read.

4) Newspaper clipping of "Introduction to Modern Art" (no author given) from the Detroit Free Press of 11 April 1967. 2 photographs show Wilmarth helping to install the sculpture of his friend Anthony Smith.

5) A page from Time Magazine of 22 November 1968 on which Wilmarth's Graham Gallery show receives a blurb.

6) Typed letter on Cooper Union letterhead appointing Wilmarth to an Adjunct Instructorship in Art. Dated February 20, 1969.

7) Page from The New York Times of 16 April 1970 in which "Guggenheim Fund Gives 286 Grants" was published, naming Wilmarth.

8) Xerox of Hilton Kramer's "The Delicate Touch of a Constructivist," 8 December 1974, scotch-taped into one piece.

9) 2 typed, paperclipped pages of Wilmarth's text "The True Story of the Gift of the Bridge."

10) 2 original copies of Wilmarth's Matrix 29 pamphlet from his small Wadsworth Atheneum exhibition, February-April 1977.

11) Original pamphlet from show at Modern Art Pavilion at the Seattle Art Museum, January 25-March 25, 1978 [?].

12) Certificate announcing that "Trees have been planted in Israel": "1 tree in memory of / John Lennon / Planted by / Christopher & Susan Wilmarth." No date given, but clearly post-1981.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Wilmarth

Verification Level

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