Drive-in theater, Highway 81, Waco, Texas

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Drive-in theater, Highway 81, Waco, Texas
Drive-in theater, Highway 81, Waco, Texas
Artist/Maker (American, born 1949)
Date1973
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet: 11 × 12 1/4 in. (27.9 × 31.1 cm) Image: 9 3/8 × 11 1/8 in. (23.8 × 28.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Jerri Golden, GP2020
Object number2024.18.2
Not on view
DescriptionBlack and white night photograph of the Circle Drive-in Theater in Waco, Texas. Image shows a large lit neon sign with the theater's name and an illustrated image of a bear running towards the viewer.

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Alternate Titles Drive-In Theater, Highway 81, Waco, Texas
Drive-in Theater, Highway 81, Waco, Texas
Circle Drive-in Theater, Highway 81, Waco, Texas
Exhibition History [not Wellin's print] "Steve Fitch: Drive-In Theaters," Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, CA, (January 14 – March 18, 2023).
Published References "Diesels and Dinosaurs" (Long Run Press, 1976). Monograph.
Signature Recto of mat board, lower left corner (pencil): "STEVE FITCH"
Inscribed Verso, center (pencil): "Steve Fitch / Waco, Texas / 1973"
Recto of mat board, lower right corner (pencil): "$150.00"
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Object number: 2019.2
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Leonard Freed
Date: 1979
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.9
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Marla Sweeney
Date: 2003
Medium: Archival inkjet print
Object number: 2020.8.22
Photograph by John Bentham.
Tony Feher
Date: 1996
Medium: Plastic bottles, water, food dye, wire and rope
Object number: 2012.3.4
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Blake Fitch
Date: 1997
Medium: Archival inkjet print
Object number: 2020.8.7
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Paul Strand
Date: 1915 (published October 1916)
Medium: Photogravure on Japan paper
Object number: 1993.6
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Date: 6th-8th century
Medium: Terracotta
Object number: 2015.6.49
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Steve Poleskie
Date: 1972
Medium: Serigraph
Object number: 1984.272
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Thomas Nast
Date: published November 7, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.259
Photo by John Bentham.
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.26
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Jeffrey Gibson
Date: 2018
Medium: Single-channel video
Object number: 2018.6
Photograph by John Bentham.
Toyokuni III
Date: 1852
Medium: Polychrome woodblock print on two sheets of paper
Object number: 1994.92