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A pop art serigraph entitled "Smoke Dreams" by Allan D'Arcangelo (American 1930-1998). This piece was created in 1980 and highlights both his experimentation with the American highway and also the feminine figure. This piece, which is from an edition of 250, is signed and numbered by the artist in pencil.

Allan D'Arcangelo was born in Buffalo, New York. He earned a degree in history from the University of Buffalo and then moved to Mexico City where he studied art and, in 1958, had his first one-man show. His style, loosely termed "hard edge" or constructivist art, is based on spatial relationships. A keen sense of perception, complemented by expert use of color tones and shadows, points up these relationships within his forceful compositions. His reputation as a Pop artist was established by his one-man exhibition where he showed his first acrylic paintings of the American highway and industrial landscape, such as Highway U.S. 1 -- No. 3 (1963; Richmond, VA Mus. F.A.). It has been said that D'Arcangelo "has the ability to defy, yet document, spatial relationships at the same time." The recipient of fifteen awards and commissions, D 'Arcangelo has had frequent solo exhibitions, many of which traveled to prominent museums throughout America. His work appears in more than thirty public collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Detroit Institute of Art, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.