Tri City Drive-In, San Bernardino

1993

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Artist, Japanese, born 1948

A movie screen is bright white against a dark gray sky, trees, and a playground in this horizontal, black and white photograph. The screen takes up about a quarter of the overall composition, just above the center of the picture. It is raised off the ground, perhaps on a wall or stage that we cannot see. Light from the screen brushes the tops of trees or shrubs growing near the bottom edge. Three sliding boards, several swing sets, and a merry-go-round fade in and out of shadow around the screen’s glow. Power lines crisscross the dark, clear sky behind the screen.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 42.4 × 54.3 cm (16 11/16 × 21 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 47.8 × 57.8 cm (18 13/16 × 22 3/4 in.)
    mount: 50.8 × 60.9 cm (20 × 24 in.)

  • Accession

    2013.68.2

  • Copyright

    © Hiroshi Sugimoto, courtesy Pace Gallery

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Hiroshi Sugimoto, NGA purchase (through Pace/MacGill, New York), 2013.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2015

  • The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Acquired with the Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2015, no. 21.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on mount in graphite: Sugimoto; on verso of mount, by unknown hand, upper right in graphite: HS.116.1

Markings

embossed, across bottom under image: Tri City Drive-In San Bernardino 1993 23/25 731

Wikidata ID

Q64155153

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