{"data":{"id":"22792","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":22792,"topgoose_id":15638,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":22792,"title":"The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York City","display_artist_text":"Christo","display_date":"2003","accession_number":"2004.419a-b","dimensions":"See components","medium":"Collage, enamel, fabric, graphite pencil, charcoal, wax crayon, pastel, wax and tape (a); Wax crayon, pastel, wax, charcoal, graphite pencil and enamel (b)","department":"collection","classification":"Drawings","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from Melva Bucksbaum, Raymond J. Learsy and the Martin Bucksbaum Family Foundation","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eChristo, \u003cem\u003eThe Gates, Project for Central Park, New York City\u003c/em\u003e, 2003. Collage, enamel, fabric, graphite pencil, charcoal, wax crayon, pastel, wax and tape (a); Wax crayon, pastel, wax, charcoal, graphite pencil and enamel (b), see components. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Melva Bucksbaum, Raymond J. Learsy and the Martin Bucksbaum Family Foundation 2004.419a-b. © Christo2003\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gates\u003c/i\u003e was a site-specific, public work of art conceived by Christo and his wife and collaborator of many decades, Jeanne-Claude, and installed on twenty-three miles of pathways in New York’s Central Park from February 12-27, 2005. The project was comprised of 7,503 “gates”―post and lintel constructions evoking Japanese \u003ci\u003etorii\u003c/i\u003e gates placed at the entrance to Shinto shrines―each draped with a panel of nylon saffron fabric. A feat of bureaucratic, technical, and civic planning, the project demanded tremendous resources. As with all of their large-scale works, Christo and Jeanne-Claude raised money to fund \u003ci\u003eThe Gates\u003c/i\u003e through sales of preparatory studies and sketches, including \u003ci\u003eThe Gates, Project for Central Park, New York City\u003c/i\u003e. This mixed media work on paper juxtaposes an aerial topographical view of the park with draftsman renderings of specific fabrication elements and a depiction of the installation itself.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Orange fabric panels hang along a Central Park walkway over water, forming a continuous riverside installation.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T17:27:34.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:01:09.351-05:00","images":[{"id":106972,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/22792/2004_419a-b_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"262","type":"artist"}]}}}}