Alan
D'Arcangelo
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Alan D'Arcangelo (1930-1998) was an American Artist and
Printmaker, best known known for his paintings of highways and
road signs. His reputation as a Pop artist was established in
1963 with his series of paintings of American highways and
signs, an example of which includes US Highway 1, Number 5.
A veteran of dozens of solo exhibitions beginning in the late
1950s. Since the 1960s his highway paintings were seen in
hundreds of group exhibitions in important galleries and museums
in the United States and Europe. He taught Fine art at Cornell
University, Brooklyn College, and the School of Visual Arts
during the 1960s. He taught painting in several other
institutions throughout his career. His paintings are in the
permanent collections of the Tate Gallery in London, the Whitney
Museum of American Art in New York, the Denver Art Museum in
Colorado, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Butler
Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, and many other
public and private collections worldwide.
