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Identification and Creation

Object Number
CW2001.1689
People
Christopher Wilmarth, American (Sonoma, CA 1943 - 1987 New York, NY)
Title
Artist's documents: photographs and slides of the Pier Project and/or REO, 1970
Classification
Archival Material
Work Type
archival material
Date
1970
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/96003

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black-and-white gelatin silver prints and color slides

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
CW2001.1689
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
6 black-and-white gelatin silver photographs related to the Pier Project and REO. The images are unlabeled, undated, and of various sizes, showing students at work, at rest, and perhaps an installation view. Wilmarth carried out two, probably simultaneous projects in 1970, one with each of his first- and second-year sculpture classes from Cooper Union, in both of which he took his students into alternative urban spaces to work and exhibit. REO occurred around the Fulton Fish Market and the Brooklyn Bridge, and the Pier Project was done at the South Street Seaport Pier and on South and Fulton Streets. For more reading on these projects, see CW2001.1690. The 2 color slides seem to be snapshots taken at the opening party for Pier Project, which was held on the Ambrose Lightship, or for REO, which was held on a ferryboat. Wilmarth is pictured in both. . . . The inside back cover of the original file, now replaced, carried the following note, now recopied: "Complete documentation of the Pier Project and REO are in the holdings of the Archives of American Art. / Negatives of photographs taken are in the NEGATIVES BINDER. 1/1989."

Subjects and Contexts

  • Wilmarth

Verification Level

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