Life...art...and which follows which?

Charles Schulz was not so much an instant advocate of the Running Fence project in Sonoma County as he was puzzled by the heated "chicken little" rhetoric opposing the idea. It was 1975, I believe, when we listened to an overflow crowd argue before the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors. As always, Christo and Jeanne-Claude were calm and seemed almost oblivious to the furor created by their proposal. Weeks later, we were fortunate to meet Christo and Jeanne-Claude in a smaller setting where they discussed this project and showed a video of their Valley Curtain project in Rifle Gap, Colorado.

In September 1976, Schulz (Sparky) flew over the length of Running Fence with his son, Craig, and viewed an unforgettable image of our golden Sonoma County hills and the coastline as the fence dipped into the Pacific.

As art follows life, Christo's project became the subject of a Peanuts comic strip on November 20, 1978. The circle was completed in October 2003, when Christo and Jeanne Claude unveiled a 3-D version of the last panel of the 1978 comic strip.

Peanuts ~ November 20, 1978

I am proud to partner with Landfall Press, Christo, and Jeanne-Claude in offering this signed, numbered, limited-edition, hand-collaged lithograph of Wrapped Snoopy House-Project for the Charles M. Schulz Museum, which celebrates this unique 25-year friendship.

— Jeannie Schulz (2004)

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Christo Wrapped Snoopy House—
Project for the Charles M. Schulz Museum
Hand-Collaged Lithograph, 2004
fabric, twine, silkscreen, tape
24-1/8 x 21-5/8” – edition of 200
$6,700 – plus any applicable local sales tax

The Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center is proud to offer a limited edition, signed and numbered lithograph titled Wrapped Snoopy House— Project for the Charles M. Schulz Museum, designed and drawn by the internationally acclaimed artist Christo. Printed by Landfall Press, each unique art work features a combination of color lithograph and silkscreen on B.F.K. Rives paper and incorporates ebony pencil, broadcloth fabric and cotton twine, mounted on museum-quality board. Sale of the prints benefit the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center.

The art work depicted in the print, Wrapped Snoopy House, is a sculpture that was presented by Christo and Jeanne-Claude to the Charles M. Schulz Museum on October 8, 2003. Snoopy’s house is wrapped with drop cloth fabric, polyethylene, rope, and wood. The sculpture can be seen on permanent display in the Charles M. Schulz Museum, in Santa Rosa, California.

Founded in 1970, Landfall Press has collaborated with artists to produce original editions in a broad range of techniques and media. Christo & Jeanne-Claude and Landfall Press celebrate twenty-nine years of collaboration with this publication of Wrapped Snoopy House—Project for the Charles M. Schulz Museum.

An admirer of the extraordinary environmental artworks by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz paid tribute to the artists in a 1978 comic strip that depicted a wrapped Snoopy doghouse.

Now 25 years later, Christo has completed Wrapped Snoopy House, a life-sized doghouse wrapped in fabric that is on permanent exhibit in the Museum. Christo and Jeanne-Claude presented the piece to Schulz's widow, Jeannie Schulz on Wednesday, October 8th, 2003 during a special members-only event at the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California.

Christo has wrapped the popular beagle's doghouse in tarpaulin, polyethylene and ropes. He states, "Snoopy's doghouse is a size perfect for a beagle, but not too small, so that it is appropriate for the international star quality of Snoopy."

Wrapped Snoopy House is on permanent exhibit at the Schulz Museum. Other non-ephemeral works created by Christo include Packages in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

"Over the years, both my husband and I have admired and respected Christo and Jeanne-Claude's work," said Jeannie Schulz, wife of Peanuts creator, Charles Schulz (known as "Sparky" to friends and colleagues). "I am delighted that Christo and Jeanne-Claude are honoring both Snoopy's celebrity and Sparky's memory with this wonderful piece."