Unfinished Burger Sign. US 9E, Glens Falls, New York
Former TitlePartially Obscured Burger, US 9, Glen Falls, NY
Artist
Jim Dow
(American, born 1942)
Date1973
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 15/16 × 9 11/16 inches (20.14 × 24.61 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 9 15/16 inches (20.32 × 25.22 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 9 15/16 inches (20.32 × 25.22 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2018.51.40
SignedSigned on sheet verso, lower right, in pencil.
InscribedTitled, dated, and editioned on sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "PARTIALLY OBSCURED BURGER, US 9, SOUTH GLEN FALLS, NY 1973 #1/25"
Markingsnone
Edition/State/Proofed. 1/25
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of a painting of a hamburger on a wall with cracking paint; the bottom half of the burger is unfinished and blends into the background.Gallery LabelIn this sign, the top third of a hamburger is fully rendered, while its bottom portion remains a ghostly outline. The craquelure (web of fine cracks in painted images) that runs throughout the surface suggests the hamburger was perhaps never fully painted. Dow found the rich textural complexity of this weathered illustration fascinating. For him, it revealed through its many layers the impact of time’s passage on the object itself.
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2018;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2018.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2018.
Copyright© Jim Dow
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