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Identification and Creation

Object Number
CW2001.1741
People
Christopher Wilmarth, American (Sonoma, CA 1943 - 1987 New York, NY)
Title
Artist's documents: exhibition materials for Nine Clearings for a Standing Man at the Wadsworth Atheneum, November 13, 1974-Janury 12, 1975
Classification
Archival Material
Work Type
archival material
Date
11/1974-1/1975
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/95358

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
CW2001.1741
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
1) 2 identical black-and-white photographs of an installation view at the Wadsworth Atheneum that shows primarily the wall of drawings and watercolors. On verso, a handwritten label in black ink (in Wilmarth's hand?) with Wilmarth's name, name of the show, and "Installation view: Hartford, Conn." Also, a stamp for E. Irving Blomstrann, Photographer, and Wilmarth's copyright stamp hand-dated 1974.

2) 2 identical black-and-white photographs showing another installation view, this one with 2 walls of wallpieces. Labeled on verso as above.

3) 1 black-and-white photograph showing a third installation view with a little more than 1 wall of wallpieces. Verso labeled as above, but with the handwritten identification in blue ball-point.

4) Xerox of a mailgram from Daniel Weinberg, Wilmarth's San Francisco gallery representative, congratulating him on the Atheneum show. Dated 11/11/1974.

5) Xerox of handwritten letter to Wilmarth on Cooper Union letterhead from Jack [last name?], the president of the Cooper Union, thanking him for the gift of a catalog from the Atheneum show and for his continued level of work and teaching. Dated 12-10-1974.

6) Xerox of typed letter to Wilmarth on Yale University letterhead from Harvey M. Wagner, presumably a collector in Yale's School of Organization and Management, thanking Wilmarth for the gift of an Atheneum catalog. Dated December 23, 1974.

7) Double-sided xerox of a handwritten note from Medford and Loraine Johnston, owners of the drawing Given, thanking Wilmarth for the gift of an Atheneum catalog. Dated January 5, 1975.

8) Double-sided xerox of a black-and-white photograph of an installation view of mostly drawings and watercolors, identical to that in item 1 above. On verso, marks as in items 1-3.

9) Sheet of cream laid paper to which is taped a black-and-white xerox of a column of text by Wilmarth, dated September 1974, from the Atheneum catalog. Also, 2 xeroxes of this sheet, on regular white wove printer paper.

10) Xerox of Hilton Kramer's New York Times review of the Atheneum show entitled "The Delicate Touch of a Constructivist," dated December 8, 1974.

11) 2 copies of the Nine Clearings for a Standing Man catalog.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Wilmarth

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