1959 Black Series Sixty-Two Cadillac Convertible
by Douglas Pittman
Title
1959 Black Series Sixty-Two Cadillac Convertible
Artist
Douglas Pittman
Medium
Digital Art - Photographic Artwork
Description
From its earliest days Cadillac has been synonymous with luxury, style and quality. Its cars rank among the finest ever built in the United States. With over a century's experience as a car builder, Cadillac is among the oldest automobile brands in the world and second only to Buick in the United States.
Over the years, Cadillac has been responsible for many innovations in both style and engineering and came to be known as “The Standard of the World”. During the 50's and 60's, Americans were entering the era of Rock and Roll and jet travel; pushing all kinds of boundaries. These excesses found their way onto the design boards of not only Cadillac but Chrysler as well. Design Chief Harley Earl introduced tail-fins with the 1948 model. Now in 1959, a decade later, Cadillac found themselves trying to “out-Chrysler”, Chrysler. The result was arguably the most flamboyant Cadillac ever. From the buxom bullet headlights to the flow-through body lines to the huge tail-fins, nothing says extreme like a 59 Caddy.
In 1974, paying tribute to Cadillac's iconic American status, a group of art-hippies known as The Ant Farm, half-buried ten Caddies nose-down in the dirt along Route 66 west of Amarillo. With Stanley Marsh III as a silent partner, the hippies created Cadillac Ranch in homage to the evolution of the Cadillac tail-fin. Decades have passed and the cars have been in the ground longer than they were driven, but the Cadillac Ranch is more popular than ever. Armed with spray-paint, it has become ritual for those who travel “The Mother Road” to stop and leave their mark on this public art of the Texas panhandle.
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June 6th, 2018
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