"A Modern Super Highway Carried Through the Countryside" from the portfolio 69
Allan D'Arcangelo
American, 1930–1998
1969
A screenprint that turns the American highway into a flattened, Pop-inflected tableau—juxtaposing a warning-striped median, schematic roadways, a photographic insert, engraved clouds, and grassy textures to make roadside modernity the subject.
Your eye is seized by the vertical red-and-cream chevron that cleaves the sheet, while clipped photo, engraved cloud forms, stark black silhouettes and a field of gray texture float in flat planes of sky and land, producing a collage-like, cinematic roadside moment.
By fusing commercial printing, photography, and graphic reduction, D'Arcangelo made the everyday imagery of speed and mobility into a Pop-era meditation on American landscape and mass media, influencing later work that interrogated advertising and the built environment.
Medium
Screenprint
Dimensions
composition: 21 3/16 x 25 1/2" (53.8 x 64.7 cm); sheet: 21 3/16 x 25 1/2" (53.8 x 64.7 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the artist
Accession
1165.1969.3
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