US Highway 1, Number 3 (Primary Title)
Allan D'Arcangelo, American, 1930 - 1998 (Artist)
The American landscape is D'Arcangelo's subject matter here, as though glimpsed from a speeding car. Two monumental, isolated signs loom against the background as the highway recedes sharply into the distance. D'Arcangelo first exhibited this seriesin New York in the early 1960s, at the same time his fellow artists took other icons of everyday life as their subjects and used the clean lines and flat colors of commercial printing to make their images both familiar and new - a trend soon called Pop Art.
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Gift of Sydney and Frances Lewis
Allan D'Arcangelo Retrospettiva, Plazzina dei Giardini, Modena, Italy, January 23 - March 28, 2005
Motion as Metaphor: The Automobile in Art, Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, VA, April 13 – June 16, 1991
Selections from the Sydney & Frances Lewis Collection of the VMFA, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, March 29 – May 10, 1987
Automobile and Culture, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, July 21, 1984 – January 6, 1985
Autoscape: The Automobile in the American Landscape, Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, CT, March 30 - May 30, 1984
Allan D'Arcangelo, Institute of Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, May 8 – July 2, 1979
Allan D'Arcangelo: Paintings 1963 - 1970, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, PA, 1971
Motion as Metaphor: The Automobile in Art, Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, VA, April 13 – June 16, 1991
Selections from the Sydney & Frances Lewis Collection of the VMFA, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, March 29 – May 10, 1987
Automobile and Culture, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, July 21, 1984 – January 6, 1985
Autoscape: The Automobile in the American Landscape, Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, CT, March 30 - May 30, 1984
Allan D'Arcangelo, Institute of Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, May 8 – July 2, 1979
Allan D'Arcangelo: Paintings 1963 - 1970, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, PA, 1971
Collection of Kimiko and John Powers, New York. (Southeby Parke-Bernet, New York) by 1977; Purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Sydney and Frances Lewis, Richmond, Virginia in March of 1977; Gift to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), Richmond, Virginia in December of 1985.
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