Valley Curtain

Valley Curtain was a 1972 environmental artwork in which artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude raised an orange curtain of fabric across a mountainous span of Colorado State Highway 325.

[1] Preparations began within a year of their Australian Wrapped Coast.

[2] Following a failed attempt to mount the curtain in late 1971, a new engineer and builder-contractor raised the fabric in August 1972.

This work, their most expensive to date and first to involve construction workers, was captured in a documentary by David and Albert Maysles.

[1] Christo's Valley Curtain was nominated for Best Documentary Short in the 1974 Academy Awards.