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OK Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
Desert Wreck
197225 x 35 1/2 in. (63.5 x 90.2 cm)
John Salt
British
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Color lithograph
Credit Line:
The Charles Rand Penney Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery
Accession Number:
1975.325.8
Location: Not currently on view
Collection:
The Charles Rand Penney Collection
Publisher:
Shorewood Atelier, New YorkPortfolio: Documenta Portfolio, 1972
From the Documenta Portfolio
While living and teaching art in America, British artist John Salt created a series of paintings and prints of wrecked cars in an impeccably realistic style. As a Photorealist artist, Salt projects his own photographs onto a surface, and from this projected image he creates his work of art. In technique and subject, Salt’s work represents the camera and the car, two modern machines that have become indispensable and so personally embedded in our lives that they function like extensions of our bodies.
[label text for Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
While living and teaching art in America, British artist John Salt created a series of paintings and prints of wrecked cars in an impeccably realistic style. As a Photorealist artist, Salt projects his own photographs onto a surface, and from this projected image he creates his work of art. In technique and subject, Salt’s work represents the camera and the car, two modern machines that have become indispensable and so personally embedded in our lives that they function like extensions of our bodies.
[label text for Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Charles Rand Penney Collection Memorial Art Gallery 2/27/1976 - 3/28/1976
- Modern Icon: The Machine as Subject in American Art Memorial Art Gallery 2/3/2012 - 5/6/2012
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Title: Acquisition: The Charles Rand Penney Foundation Collection. Article Scope: article. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Volume Number: 41, Issue Number: 6. Issue Date: February 1976.
- Article Scope: Mention. Elizabeth Brayer. Magnum Opus: The Story of the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1988. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1988.
- The Charles Rand Penney Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 1976.
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