Christopher Wilmarth


Christopher Wilmarth was an American artist, known for producing sculptures using primarily glass and steel.

Early life

Christopher Wilmarth was born on June 11, 1943 in Sonoma, California. He was raised in Sonoma County and Palo Alto, California before moving to New York City in the 1960s. He earned a B.F.A. from Cooper Union in 1966.

Career

Wilmarth was a professor of sculpture at Cooper Union and Columbia University.
In 1973, Wilmarth began a series of sculptures titled Nine Clearings for a Standing Man. Each work consisted of a sheet of subtly bent steel behind a sheet of etched glass. The Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Des Moines Art Center, the Fogg Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Walker Art Center, and the Whitney Museum of American Art are among the public collections holding work by Wilmarth.
In 1978, Wilmarth became abandoned art dealer representation and established The Studio of the First Amendment, where he hosted his own exhibitions independently.

Death

On November 19, 1987, Wilmarth was found dead of an apparent suicide at his home in Red Hook, Brooklyn. He was 44.
In 2001, Wilmarth's wife, Susan Wilmarth-Rabineau, donated her late husband's archive of work to the Harvard Art Museums.

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