Untitled from National Collection of Fine Arts Portfolio
Allan D'Arcangelo
American, 1930–1998
1968
A 1968 screenprint by Allan D'Arcangelo that takes highway signs and road imagery and turns them into a bold, flat, pop-inflected composition, lifting commercial graphics into the realm of art.
Two oversized yellow-and-red striped panels outlined in black dominate a pale blue sky while a stark white road with black dashes recedes to a tiny tree and a distant triangular “YIELD” sign, all rendered as crisp, simplified color planes.
Situated in the Pop Art era, the print exposes the visual language of postwar American car culture and helped blur the line between commercial sign-making and fine art by elevating everyday roadside motifs into formal images.
Medium
Screenprint from a portfolio of five lithographs, one etching, and one screenprint
Dimensions
composition: 30 x 19 1/4" (76.2 x 48.9 cm); sheet: 30 x 19 1/4" (76.2 x 48.9 cm)
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Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Francis Avnet
Accession
739.1968.3
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