First Drafts: Christo’s ‘Over the River’

Renowned for his epically scaled environmental art, Christo has draped the Reichstag in Berlin and Paris’ Pont Neuf in giant swaths of fabric, populated the inland valleys of California and Japan with thousands of umbrellas, and installed a maze of gates in Central Park. These projects have each attracted millions of visitors. Here he shares the sketches and preparatory drawings for “Over the River,” an ongoing project developed, like much of his art, with his late wife and collaborator, Jeanne-Claude.

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[Images: Simon Chaput/Andre Grossmann]

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