Christopher Wilmarth

Introduction
Christopher Wilmarth (1943–1987) is perhaps best known for his glass and steel sculptures, which he produced to explore the mystical and physical properties of light. His goal was to create works that would give people “places to generate experience.” Wilmarth had his first solo exhibition in New York in 1968, and he continued to show regularly for the rest of his career. He exhibited works in galleries and museums, as well as in his own venue, the Studio for the First Amendment, which he established in opposition to the commercial gallery system. His drawings, sculptures, and prints are now in numerous museums and private collections. The Harvard Art Museums began collecting his work in 1973 and have since acquired hundreds of objects from his oeuvre, including sculptures, paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, prints, and photographs, as well as thousands of archival documents given by the artist’s estate. These acquisitions have resulted in a collection of unusual depth and breadth, making the Harvard Art Museums a primary source for students, scholars, and collectors of Wilmarth’s work.
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- Charcoal
- Colored pencil
- Gouache
- Graphite
- Ink
- Mixed media
- Multiple drawing media
- Paper
- Pastel
- Watercolor
- Alba Sweeps
- Arbor for Rising Grey
- Back
- C.C. Rider
- Celadon Walk
- Days on Blue
- Deeps L.A. series
- Delancey Backs
- Drawing series
- Emanation
- Evers
- For Hank Williams Series
- For Roebling series
- Gift of the Bridge
- Given series
- Gnomon series
- Gnomon’s Parade series
- Her Sides of Me
- Invitation series
- Is, Was series
- Leavers and Dreams
- Long Beginning for my Brother
- Long Leavers Gate
- Long Memphis
- Moments Hold
- My old books closed...
- New Blue Start
- New Ninth series
- Nine Clearings for a Standing Man series
- Normal Corner series
- October Ladders
- Orange Delta for A.P.S.
- Panoply
- Panoply’s Angel
- Passing Blue
- Platform Dream series
- Saint
- Second Roebling series
- Sender
- Shifrah
- Side Slip
- Sigh
- Slip
- Sonoma
- Sonoma Corners
- Stocking Stairs
- Stray series
- Stream series
- Street Leaf series
- Structure (A Back)
- Susan Walked In
- The Hunger Artist
- The Letter ‘O’
- The whole soul summed up...
- Tilting Ardor
- Tina Turner
- Toast
- Trace
- Twelve Drawings series
- Untitled works
- When winter on forgotten woods moves somber...
- Wyoming
- Yolande
- Zinc Wall