A box truck with a mural painted on its side parked in front of a house
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

A box truck in profile occupies the middle of this black and white photograph. On a city street with tightly packed houses, the truck sits parked in front of another car on a narrow sidewalk, one front wheel jutting off the curb, into the street. The side wall of the box truck shows a trompe l'oeil mural that mimics the back of the cab of the truck at one end, and a deck of a house at the other, situated on the floor of its flatbed. From the open flatbed, a view opens up of a landscape of rolling hills and mountains.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1982.107
People
Jack Welpott, American (Kansas City, Kansas 1923 - 2007 Greenbrae, California)
Title
Untitled
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: New California Views, 1979
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1979
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/284608

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
actual: 22 x 31 cm (8 11/16 x 12 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Jack Welpott
  • inscription: inscribed in ink on recto of the sheet: Jack Welpott 1979

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., New York, New York, purchased from LA Ctr. for PSP Com., July 1977, 1977, gift, 1982. LA Ctr. for Photographic Studies Portfolio Com.; on Long Term Loan to the Fogg Art Museum from 1979 to 1982

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Melvin R. Seiden
Object Number
P1982.107
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1100 60’s Experiment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/04/2018 - 04/09/2019

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