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Terre Haute No. 2

1969

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Terre Haute No. 2, a 60 by 50 inch canvas with a ground consisting of five horizontal stripes starting with beige at top and becoming an increasingly darker brown. The darkest brown stripe at the bottom of the canvas contains "Terre Haute" painted in stenciled red letters. In the center of the canvas is yellow number 40 in a black circle with an orange outline. Above the circle is a a black arc with "Wabash" painted in red letters. Light and darker blue rays emanate from behind the letters, ending in a triangle below the circle. There is a blue circle with an orange star at the top left and right of the canvas, in between this No 2 has been painted in red.

Terre Haute No. 2

1969

Oil on canvas

60 × 50 in. (152.4 × 127 cm)

 

Artwork: © Morgan Art Foundation Ltd./Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Vintage postcard of Wabash River Bridge, spanning Wabash River at U.S. Highway 40 in Terre Haute, Indiana

Vintage postcard of Wabash River Bridge, spanning Wabash River at U.S. Highway 40 in Terre Haute, Indiana

Description

Terre Haute No. 2 is one of two paintings from 1969 in which Indiana commemorates places in the state of Indiana and the highways and rivers that pass through them.  Wabash refers to the river of that name, which spans the entire state of Indiana and passes through Terre Haute. 40 refers to U.S. Route 40, a major east-west highway which also passes through Terre Haute. The painting made its public debut in 1970 in The Highway: An Exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.