Allan D'Arcangelo
Allan D’Arcangelo (1930-1998), born in Buffalo, New York, lived and worked in New York City. A leading figure of American Pop Art, he is best known for his paintings and prints depicting highways, road signs, cars and other elements of the American landscape. Combining the visual language of popular culture with a precise, geometric aesthetic, D’Arcangelo transformed the road into a recurring subject through which he explored movement, modernity and the structures of contemporary American life.
Allan D'Arcangelo Editions
Allan D'Arcangelo
Proposition 1967
1969
SIlkscreen on wove paper, 64.8 × 64.8 cm. Edition of 120, signed and numbered.
Allan D’Arcangelo’s edition Proposition 1967 (1969) reduces the American landscape to a striking geometric composition. A large white field is crossed by four fine lines that converge towards a small central rectangle, while vivid blue and green planes frame the image. The distant landscape visible within the central opening creates the illusion of depth, contrasting with the otherwise flat, precisely structured composition.
The work reflects D’Arcangelo’s characteristic engagement with highways, road signs and the visual structures of the American landscape. By reducing these familiar elements to simple geometric forms, he transforms the road and its surrounding environment into an abstract system of perspective, movement and signs. The tension between the expansive white space and the tiny central landscape gives the work a distinctly cinematic quality, as if the viewer were looking through a windshield towards a distant horizon. Proposition 1967 is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
EUR 1,800
Allan D'Arcangelo
Super Highway
1969
Color screenprint with collaged postcard, 53 x 64.8 cm. Edition of 120, signed and numbered.
Allan D’Arcangelo’s edition Super Highway (1969), from the portfolio 69, brings together the imagery of the American road with elements of collage and graphic abstraction. A photographic postcard of the highway and surrounding landscape is set within a composition of bold geometric forms, outlined clouds and a striking red-and-white road barrier.
The work exemplifies D’Arcangelo’s fascination with the American highway as both a physical infrastructure and a cultural symbol. By combining a fragment of real landscape with simplified signs, road markings and geometric structures, he creates a tension between the photographic and the constructed, turning the familiar experience of driving into an abstract visual language. Super Highway is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
EUR 1,800
Allan D'Arcangelo
Landscape I
1965
Screenprint, 60.96 x 50.8 cm. Edition of 200, signed and numbered.
In edition Landscape I (1965), from the portfolio 11 Pop Artists, Allan D'Arcangelo transforms the American landscape into a system of simplified signs and geometric forms. The composition combines vivid fields of colour with a central black arrow, suggesting a road, direction and movement while reducing the landscape to its most essential elements.
The work reflects D’Arcangelo’s characteristic engagement with highways, road signs and the visual structures of the American landscape. By stripping these familiar elements of their naturalistic context, he turns them into an abstract visual language that sits between landscape and signage. Landscape I was part of the influential 11 Pop Artists, Volume I, published by Original Editions in 1966, and is in the collections of MoMA, New York, The Whitney, New York, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., among others.
EUR 2,000
