While it was necessary to make many prints in order to generate the money needed to realize projects, Christo (1935 – 2020) and Jeanne-Claude (1935 – 2009) stipulated that no additional editions be made after their deaths. The signed prints and lithographs that are available for sale here come from…
This week’s newsletter spotlights different modes of environmental art from the 1970s–1990s, and includes artists like Newton Harrison & Helen Mayer Harrison, Richard Long, Robert Smithson, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Alan Sonfist, and Patricia Johanson.
Over the years Christo and Jean-Claude’s wrappings have frequently been at a colossal scale and involved prominent public structures. These projects are by necessity short term (usually two weeks) but they live on through copious documentation created by the artists themselves.