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Christo Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Christo available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Home Page:
The Art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Web site authorized by the artists
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York City. Drawing in 2 parts, 2003
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Christo at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Running Fence, Project for Sonoma County and Marin County, State of California, drawing
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Wrapped Coast, Little Bay, Australia
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Running Fence, graphite, pastel, charcoal, fabric collage, 1976
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
2 works by or related to the artist
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Dublin City Gallery | The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland NEW!
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Fundació Suñol, Barcelona
Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Indiana State University Art Collection
Jacobs Gallery at Georgetown College, Kentucky
Surrounded Islands (Project for Biscayne Bay, Florida)
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Wrapped Motorcycle/Sidecar, Project for Harley-Davidson 1933 VL Model, 1997
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Musée d'Art Contemporain - MAC, Marseilles, France (in French) 
Empaquetage
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy (in Italian)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Orange Store Front
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Packed coast. Little Bay, Australia
S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent, Belgium
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands
Packed Armchair, 1964-65
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
Wrapped Floors / Project for the Hans Lange Museum, 1983
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales
Wrapped Reichstag, 1994
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
California State University WorldImages Database
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
Wrapped Trees, Riehen, Switzerland, 1999
PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
Pont Neuf Wrappped - Paris
Wrapped Reichstag - Berlin
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
ArtDaily - Exhibition Photo Galleries
5 photos of Christo & Jeanne-Claude, with Mayor Michael Bloomburg, at the opening of The Gates
Time Magazine Cover Archive
Planet Earth
UBS Financial Services Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Christo 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Deutsche Bank Artmag
Christo: The Gates
Frieze Magazine
"Wrap it Up -- Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Reichstag Project"
Journal of Contemporary Art Online
Interview with the artist
Salon Magazine
Profile of the artist's career
Christo at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1973 interview from the Oral History project
The New York Observer
"Saffron Succotash! Those Absurd Gates A Blight on Art, City", article by Hilton Kramer
The New Yorker
"Gated", 2005 article by Peter Schjeldahl
The Wall Street Journal
"It's a Wrap: Mayor Bloomberg lets Christo loose in Central Park"
Multimedia:
Tate Channel
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Over the River (2005)
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself
Lots more videos of "The Gates", apparently one of the world's best-documented art installations
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself
Christo and Jeanne-Claude speaking with a school group somewhere
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
search inside
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A Biography
search inside
The Gates: Project for Central Park
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the Vogel Collection
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