This exhibition explores the central role of the automobile in defining American identity over the past century. American scene paintings and photographs depict the early days of American car culture; the journey continues with responses by Pop artists such as Andy Warhol, which draw on the car as a symbol of freedom, individualism and middle class identity, and more recent – sometimes critical – work by figures such as Edward Burtynsky and Kerry James Marshall. Find out more from the Toledo Museum’s website.
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Landscape with Garage Lights (1931–32), Stuart Davis. © Estate of Stuart Davis/Licensed by VAGA, New York
Red Mercedes (1972), Don Eddy. Photo: Christopher Ridgeway; © Don Eddy
Oxford Tire Pile #8 (1955), Edward Burtynsky. Courtesy Metivier Gallery, Toronto/Weinstein Hammons Gallery, Minneapolis; © Edward Burtynsky
New York City (Spider Girl) (1980), Helen Levitt. © The Estate of Helen Levitt
7am Sunday Morning (2003), Kerry James Marshall. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; © Kerry James Marshall
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