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Jeanne-Claude, 1935-2009 -- Exhibitions

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Remembering the Running Fence

A curtain of glowing white nylon that winds across the brown earth until it disappears where the land meets the blue sky - this is what images of Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 1972-76, an installation artwork created by Christo and Jeanne-Claude depict. Running Fence, stretched 24 1/2 miles through Sonoma and Marin counties in California to end in the Pacific Ocean, was the...

https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/christo