Documentary Video - From Start to Finish: De Wain Valentine’s Gray Column

This 30-minute documentary video recounts the remarkable story behind the making of Gray Column, from its original concept to its display at the Getty Center, through interviews with Valentine and his contemporaries, his studio assistants, collectors, conservators, curators, and scientists, and includes a wealth of stunning archival images taken during Gray Column’s creation.

It illustrates the extraordinary measures Valentine undertook to develop a material that would enable him to cast colossal… Show more pieces, and the efforts needed to achieve their extremely delicate and pristine surfaces.

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