Hello and Good-bye

Inscriptions

Signed, dated and inscribed on reverse: A. D'Arcangelo #14 / NYC 1964 / "24 x 24" / "Hello and Goodbye"

Label

Allan D’Arcangelo’s Hello and Good-bye captures the tension between looking back and moving forward, visually symbolizing this exhibition’s theme of time as an intertwined process. The orange rectangle heightens the painting’s geometric precision and intensity. Its bold presence disrupts both depth and illusion—exposing the scene’s constructed nature. By using an actual rearview mirror, D’Arcangelo dissolves the boundary between painting and object. The painting’s highway stretches into the horizon, while the rearview mirror reflects the road already traveled, reminding the viewer that progress is inseparable from memory. It suggests that looking back is not an act of nostalgia but a necessary part of understanding one’s direction moving forward.

From the 2025 exhibition A Space for Dialogue 124, In the Space Between, curated by Chandini Peddanna ’25, Erbe Intern

Course History

ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2016

Exhibition History

A Space for Dialogue 124, In the Space Between, Chandini Peddanna ’25, Erbe Intern, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 31 - July 27, 2025.

Acquisitions 1974-1978, Jaffe-Friede Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth Colllege, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 8, 1978-January 21, 1979.

Art for the Vice-President's House from Northeast Museums, arranged by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, March 6-13, 1979.

Art of the 60's and 70's, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont, July 11-September 18, 2005.

By the Side of the Road, The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, June 23-October 22, 1978.

Contemporary Art from the College Collection, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 24-March 2, 1975.

Home of the Vice-President, Washington D.C., April 1979-April 1980.

Points of View, Art History 2, ARTH 2, Winter 2016, Joy Kenseth and Mary Coffey, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 1-March 13, 2016.

Ruscha and Pop: Icons of the 1960's, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 12-June 15, 2008.

The Robert B. Mayer Memorial Collection, Barrows Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 3, 1976-January 16, 1977.

Publication History

Joseph Brodsky, "Boredom's Uses," Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, October 1989.

James V. Galgano, By the Side of the Road, Manchester, N.H.:The Currier Gallery of Art, 1978, ill. p. 6,fig.5

Kristin Monahan Garcia, Ruscha and Pop: Icons of the 1960's, Setting the Standard for Viewing the Modern World, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hood Museum of Art, 2008, ill, p. 3.

Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.51, no.27.

Provenance

Beverly Marks Zagor (1927-2011) and Howard Stanley Zagor (1919-2015), Norwich, Vermont; given to present collection, 1974.

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