Steve Fitch
Motel Sign, Highway 101, Ukiah, California

cropped recto of sheet
Motel Sign, Highway 101, Ukiah, California
cropped recto of sheet
ArtistAmerican, born 1949
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Motel Sign, Highway 101, Ukiah, California
  • from the series Diesels and Dinosaurs
Date1974, printed 2001
Place depictedUkiah, California, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 3/4 × 12 1/2 in. (24.8 × 31.8 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 13 7/8 in. (27.9 × 35.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern
Object number2012.335
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico]; purchased by MFAH, 2012.
Exhibition HistoryThis image was in the following exhibitions:
"Studio 74," Focus Gallery, San Francisco, 1974
"Steve Fitch: Photographs," Hills Gallery, Denver, Colorado, 1982
"Exposed and Developed: Photography Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts," Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1984
"Road and Roadside," The Chicago Art Institute, 1987
"Steve Fitch: Diesels and Dinosaurs and Beyond," Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, 1997
"Inaugural Photography Exhibition in the new Modern Wing." The Chicago Art Institute, 2009
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower center: "Motel sign, Hightway 101, Ukiah, California" / 1974/2001 / [signature] / A/P
Signed in pencil, verso, lower center: Steve Fitch

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