Is-Was (Softly) Detail
Catalogue
- Year
- 1976
- Dimensions
- 29 x 22" (73.7 x 55.9 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Christopher Wilmarth
Artist
Sculpture
Christopher Wilmarth was an American sculptor who worked primarily in glass and steel, creating translucent architectural forms that explored light, transparency, and spatial perception. Active from the 1960s until his death in 1987, his practice emerged from postwar minimalism while maintaining a distinctive emphasis on how materials transmit and refract vision. His monumental installations and smaller wall-mounted pieces used plate glass and steel framework to create immersive environments that challenged the boundary between sculpture and architecture.
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Twelve Drawings from the Forty-Fourth Year: Her Sides of Me, No. 11
1987 · Pencil, crayon, and gouache on two sheets of cut paper prepared with synthetic polymer paint
Untitled
1987 · Graphite, graphite wash, gesso and rabbit-skin glue on paper
Twelve Drawings from the Forty-Fourth Year: #12 Delancey Backs
1987 · Pencil on prepared paper
Twelve Drawings from the Forty-Fourth Year: Emanation (for Enzo Nocera), No. 1
1987 · Pencil and gouache on two sheets of cut paper prepared with gouache and synthetic polymer paint
Self-Portrait with Sliding Light
1987 · Steel, bronze and lead
The whole soul summed up... from Seven Poems
1981 · One from an illustrated book with seven etching and aquatints
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- Christopher Wilmarth
- Year
- 1976
- Dimensions
- 29 x 22" (73.7 x 55.9 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1976-M102918
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified