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Running Fence

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Artist/Creator (1)	Christo (born 1935) Jeanne-Claude (born 1935)
Artist/Creator (1).Nationality	Bulgarian (active in United States) French (active in the United States)
Artist/Creator (1).Role	environmental artists, sculptors
Title/Caption	Running Fence
Date of Work	1972-1976. Completed on September 10, 1976.
Description of View	Detail view showing work stretching across hills. (Work on view for fourteen days after completion. Subsequently dismantled and all material given to ranchers owning the property where Running Fence stood.)
Technique/Process	sculpture
Materials/Medium	heavy woven white nylon fabric, steel poles, steel cables
Dimensions	Height: 5.5 meters (18 ft.). Length: 40 kilometers (24 1/2 miles). 2,050 steel poles. Each pole, L: 6.4 meters (21 ft.), Dia: 9 cm (3 1/2 in.), embedded 1 meter (3 ft.) into ground. 145 kilometers (90 miles) of steel cable strung between poles and bracing poles laterally as guy wires. 200,000 square meters of fabric (2,222,222 square ft.) hung between poles.
Century	20th Century
Location.Former Site/City & Country	Marin and Sonoma Counties, California (United States)
Subject	Sculpture, American Sculpture, 20th century Environmental art Site-specific works Installations (visual works)
Collection Title	Sculpture (Art and Art History Department images)
Collection Information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193
Copyright Information	http://contentdm.unl.edu:2000/ah_copyright.html