Gulf Series
Artist
Allan D'Arcangelo
(American, 1930 - 1998)
Date1969
MediumSerigraph on paper
DimensionsOverall: 23 3/8 x 25 7/16 in., (59.4 x 64.6 cm,)
ClassificationsPRINTS
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number70.29
Description On View
Not on viewCollections
CopyrightPresumed copyright: the artist or the artist's representative/heir(s).
Label TextDuring the 1960s, Pop artists mined image-laden American advertising and media for source material. Andy Warhol reproduced Campbell soup cans while Roy Lichtenstein appropriated the style of comic strips. Alan D'Arcangelo examined the culture of fast food restaurants, motel chains, and gas stations that erupted in the United States after the Eisenhower administration of the 1950s introduced the interstate highway system. Here D'Arcangelo employed a commercial logo, from the Gulf oil company, to depict a rising "moon" that illuminates a re-visioned, post-World War II American landscape.
MEM
2002
