Homes for America

1966-1967

Dan Graham

Associated Names
Dan Graham

Artist, American, 1942 - 2022

This is a photograph featuring two vignettes capturing moments from everyday life. The top photograph shows the interior of a restaurant with three chrome stools lined against a counter, overlooking empty streets and buildings. The bottom photograph displays the back ends of a row of large cargo trucks parked under a street lamp against a pale sky. The photographs are titled "Family Group in New Highway Restaurant, Jersey City, N.J. 1967" and "Trucks, New York City 1966", respectively.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    2 chromogenic prints

  • Credit Line

    Glenstone in honor of Eileen and Michael Cohen

  • Dimensions

    image (top): 23 x 34 cm (9 1/16 x 13 3/8 in.)
    image (bottom): 27.8 x 34 cm (10 15/16 x 13 3/8 in.)
    mount: 101 x 75 cm (39 3/4 x 29 1/2 in.)
    framed: 102 x 76.2 x 2.8 cm (40 3/16 x 30 x 1 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2008.30.20

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Eileen and Michael Cohen, New York; NGA purchase (through Zwirner and Wirth, New York), 2008.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2013

  • Color: American Photography Transformed, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth; The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, 2013 - 2014, no. 2.19.

2016

  • Intersections: Photographs and Videos from the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2016 - 2017, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

2013

  • New Jersey as Non-Site. Exh. cat., Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2013.

  • Color: American Photography Transformed. Exh. cat., Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth; The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis. [Austin]: University of Texas Press; [Fort Worth]: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 2013: no. 2.19.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower center on mount in graphite: Top: Family Group in New Highway Restaurant, Jersey City, N.J. 1967 Bottom: Trucks, New York City 1966 / Dan Graham

Wikidata ID

Q64145942

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