Landscape III
1965
39 7/8 x 29 13/16 in. (101.3 x 75.7 cm)
Allan D'Arcangelo
American
(Buffalo, NY, 1930 - 1998, Manhattan, NY)
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Color Serigraph
Credit Line:
Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
1971.65
Location: Not currently on view
Hors Commerce:
50
Printer:
Knickerbocker Machine and Foundry, Inc.
Publisher:
Original Editions
Portfolio:
11 Pop Artists, Volume III (1965)
Allan D’Arcangelo’s Landscape III is a consideration of the new American landscape of highways, suspended bridges, traffic signs, and billboards. A minor border of sky and grass surround a traffic sign that normally indicates a hairpin curve. Turned on its side and placed over another arrow sign pointing in the opposite direction, the sign’s meaning becomes unclear and potentially dangerous.
[label text for Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]