CW2001.1720: Artist's documents: "The True Story of the Gift of the Bridge," 1973 and 1977
Archival Material
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- CW2001.1720
- People
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Christopher Wilmarth, American (Sonoma, CA 1943 - 1987 New York, NY)
- Title
- Artist's documents: "The True Story of the Gift of the Bridge," 1973 and 1977
- Classification
- Archival Material
- Work Type
- archival material
- Date
- 1973-1977
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/95437
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black-and-white xeroxes
- Technique
- Photocopy
- Dimensions
- 27.8 x 21.5 cm (10 15/16 x 8 7/16 in.)
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
- CW2001.1720
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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1) 4 xeroxed typed sheets comprising 2 identical copies of the 2-page essay "The True Story of the Gift of the Bridge" in which Wilmarth recounts his twentieth birthday and the gift Susan gave him on the occasion. Beneath the title Wilmarth has typed "Written in Milan, in 1973. / Rewritten in New York, 1977." For correspondence with Peter Marlow at the Wadsworth Atheneum about the 1977 version of this essay and its publication for a small show of Wilmarth's there, see CW2001.1700.
2) Typed sheet, first page of "The True Story of the Gift of the Bridge," missing its second page.
3) 4 xeroxed handwritten pages of Wilmarth's draft of the 1977 version of above essay. Lower righthand corner of each page was stamped with Wilmarth's copyright stamp before xeroxing. On an amusing note: at the close of the essay, below the passage that shows how Susan's birthday message changed over the years from 1963 to 1971, Wilmarth wrote a line that did not appear in the typed version in this file, "(conceptualists, eat your heart out)."
Subjects and Contexts
- Wilmarth
Verification Level
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