2001.149: Invitation #1

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2001.149

People

Christopher Wilmarth, American (Sonoma, CA 1943 - 1987 New York, NY)

Title

Invitation #1

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

7/1976

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/175333

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite, graphite wash, and staples on layered translucent vellum paper

Dimensions

sight: 55.8 x 59.9 cm (21 15/16 x 23 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, l.r.: CMW 7/76
• gallery label: verso of backing board of frame, u.r., paper, printed and typed: Hirschl & Adler Modern 851 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10021/
  Artist: Christopher Wilmarth/
  Title: Invitation #1 [underlined]/
  Size and medium: 22 x 24 inches; Graphite, layered paper & staples
  Date: 1976 No: M2606D
• label: verso of backing board, l.r., paper: [decriptive label]
  W215/
  Christopher Wilmarth/
  Invitation #1/ [underlined]
  1976
  
• inscription: verso of backing board, center, black ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: Invitation #1
• inscription: verso of backing board, l.r., graphite, handwritten: W215
• stamp: verso of frame backing board on descriptive label, l.r. corner, black ink: CMW

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Christopher Wilmarth, by descent; to Susan Wilmarth-Rabineau, New York, New York, 1987, sold; to the Harvard University Art Museums, through the [Nielsen Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts], 2001.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund

Copyright

© Estate of Christopher Wilmarth

Accession Year

2001

Object Number

2001.149

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Christopher Wilmarth: Layers, Works from 1961-1984, auct. cat., Hirschl & Adler Modern Gallery (New York, NY, 1984), cat. no. 34, p. 47, repr.
• Edward Saywell, Christopher Wilmarth: Drawing into Sculpture, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2003), checklist no. 38 and p. 23, repr. color p. 65
• Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2001-2002 (Cambridge, MA, 2003), p. 27, repr.
• Steven Henry Madoff and Nancy Milford, Christopher Wilmarth: Light and Gravity, Princeton University Press (Princeton, New Jersey and Oxford, England, 2004), repr. pl. 75, p. 71

Exhibition History

• Christopher Wilmarth: Layers, Works from 1961-1984, Hirschl & Adler Modern Gallery, 03/17/1984 - 04/19/1984
• Christopher Wilmarth: Drawing into Sculpture, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/05/2003 - 06/29/2003

Subjects and Contexts

• Wilmarth

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