Artwork Description
Christo and Jeanne-Claude – Over the River (Project for Arkansas River)
Dimensions: 19.5 x 23.5″ paper / 15.75 x 20.25″ plate
Year: 2005
Medium: offset lithograph with collage and hand work
Text center, verso “Christo Nouvelles Images, S.A. Editeurs M 716”
Project for the Arkansas River, State of Colorado
1992–2017
Spanning out 5.9 miles (9.5 kilometers) Over the River stretched over the Arkansas River between Cañon City and Salida in south-central Colorado, in panels of silvery, lustrous fabric. (In August 1992, 1993 and 1994) Christo and Jeanne-Claude and their team traveled the majority of the Rocky Mountains in the United States, approximately 14,000 miles (22,530 kilometers) in search of the perfect site for their next monumental installation. This project was the first ever completed work of art used for a Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). Over the River initially took federal action, and resulted in a 1,686 page comprehensive analysis.