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An admirer of the extraordinary environmental artworks by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Schulz paid tribute to the artists in a November 30, 1978 Peanuts comic strip.
Twenty-five years later, Christo returned the compliment by creating Wrapped Snoopy House, a life-sized doghouse wrapped in tarpaulin, polyethylene, and ropes, and presenting it to Jean Schulz for permanent display at the Museum.
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CMSMWS_180715_11.JPG: The Schulz-Christo Connection
CMSMWS_180715_15.JPG: Christo's presentation to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, 1975
CMSMWS_180715_19.JPG: This rendering of Running Fence is an example of Christo's architectural drawings, which are collected by museums and individuals throughout the world.
CMSMWS_180715_23.JPG: Panel from Running Fence
This panel was hung from a steel cable that was strung between steel poles and embedded three feet into the ground (without using concrete) and braced laterally with guy wires and earth anchors. The top and bottom of this panel were secured to the upper and lower cables by hooks.
CMSMWS_180715_26.JPG: photo: Wolfgang Volz, 1976
CMSMWS_180715_33.JPG: Charles Schulz memorialized Christo's project in this daily comic strip from November 20, 1978, presaging the actual wrapped house by 25 years.
I remember when Christo hung the Valley Curtain in Colorado.
I loved the Running Fence in California and the Wrapped Walkways in Kansas City...
I wonder what he'll do next...
CMSMWS_180715_38.JPG: The story of Wrapped Snoopy House began in 1975 when Charles Schulz met Christo following Christo's presentation to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors. Christo was seeking approval from the Supervisors for his Running Fence project, a 24-1/2 mile, 18-foot high, white nylon curtain that zigzagged over the Sonoma County hills before plunging into the ocean at the Marin-Sonoma county line. This began a friendship based on mutual respect and admiration that lasted a quarter of a century.
CMSMWS_180715_45.JPG: More information about Christo's Running Fence and other projects by Christo and Jeanne-Claude around the world can be found in the Education Room (2nd floor). Please ask the volunteer to show you the materials we have available.
CMSMWS_180715_53.JPG: Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Wrapped Snoopy House, 2003
Doghouse wrapped in drop cloth, polyethylene, rope and wood
Wikipedia Description: Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center
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The Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center is a museum dedicated to the works of Charles M. Schulz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip. The museum opened on August 17, 2002, and is in Santa Rosa, California.
The museum is home to many of the original Peanuts strips, as well as other artwork by Schulz. Two works by Japanese artist Yoshiteru Otani dominate the Great Hall: a 3.5 ton wood sculpture depicting the evolution of Snoopy and a 22 ft (6.7 m) high ceramic mural made of 3,588 Peanuts strips which combine to form the image of Lucy van Pelt holding the football for Charlie Brown to kick it. Among the museum's permanent exhibits are a work by Christo which depicts Snoopy's doghouse wrapped, Schulz's personal studio and tributes to Schulz from other artists. Inside the museum are 3 galleries with exhibits that change every year.
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