The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 10, 2023

Brite Green Store Front Project

1965

Christo

(American, 1935–2020)

America, 20th century

Graphite, charcoal, enamel paint, cotton fabric, brown wrapping paper, galvanized steel, masonite, and wire mesh

Support: Wood

Framed: 75.7 x 59.8 cm (29 13/16 x 23 9/16 in.); Unframed: 73.9 x 58.1 cm (29 1/8 x 22 7/8 in.)

Gift of Christo and Jeanne-Claude/CVJ Corporation 1996.211

© Christo 1965

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed, lower right, in graphite: Christo 65 ; by artist, lower left, in graphite: "BRITE GREEN STORE FRONT | PROJECT | 7F X 8 F 9" X 2F ; by artist, around perimeter, in graphite and black crayon: [various inscriptions relating measurements]

Citations
Cleveland Museum of Art, “Art Museum Acquires Three Works of Art by Christo Christo & Jeanne-Claude to Give Lecture at CMA,” April 24, 1996, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
Exhibition history

Martin Gropius Bau Museum, Berlin; September 8-December 30, 2001. "Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Early Works, 1958-69," exh. cat. no. 196, pp. 126-127.

Main Gallery Rotation (Gallery 229): July 28, 2014 - April 20, 2015.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Early Works, 1958-69. Martin Gropius Bau (September 8-December 30, 2001).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1996.211