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William Christenberry KKK Doll 1963 plastic, wood, satin and felt Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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William Christenberry Church across Early Cotton, Pickensville, Alabama 1964 C-print Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
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William Christenberry Untitled 1972 graphite, ink, tempera, and oil-pastel on paper (study for poster) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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William Christenberry Untitled (Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law) 1973 screenprint (draft poster) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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William Christenberry High Kudzu near Akron, Alabama 1978- C-print- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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William Christenberry Green Warehouse, Newbern, Alabama 1978- C-print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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William Christenberry Green Warehouse 1978 painted wood on red clay base Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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William Christenberry Palmist Building (South End), Havana Junction, Alabama 1979 C-print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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William Christenberry River House 1980 painted wood, metal and paper on red clay base Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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William Christenberry Side of Cotton Warehouse, Newbern, Alabama 1980 C-print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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William Christenberry Hologram 1983 hologram in glass Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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William Christenberry Storefront - Stewart, Alabama 1984 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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William Christenberry Dream Building V 1986 painted wood and metal on red clay base Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Jerry Thompson William Christenberry in the Studio 1988 color transparency Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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William Christenberry Wall with Green Sphere 1992 assemblage of partly painted metal and wood Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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William Christenberry Wall Construction with Blue Star 1994 assemblage of partly painted metal, wood and paper Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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William Christenberry K-Form #2 2001 encaustic and wax on panel Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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William Christenberry Dream Building in Landscape 2001 painted wood on red clay base Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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William Christenberry Southern Monument on Column 2006 painted wood and metal Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
from The Summer People
These two were summer neighbors.
They loved without desire.
Both now pushing fifty,
Had elsewhere played with fire.
Of all the summer people
Who dwelt in pigeonholes,
Old Navy or Young Married,
The Bad Sports, the Good Souls,
These were the Amusing,
The Unconventional ones –
Plus Andrew's Jane (she used a cane
And shook it at his puns)
And Nora's mother Margaret
With her dawn-colored hair,
Her novels laid in Europe
That she wrote in a garden chair.
– James Merrill (1969)