Cadillac Ranch Entry

If you didn't know the iconic Cadillacs of Cadillac Ranch were out there, you would surely miss them on this morning! And if you didn't know they... more

by Joan Carroll

Title

Cadillac Ranch Entry

Artist

Joan Carroll

Medium

Photograph - Digital Art

Description

If you didn't know the iconic Cadillacs of Cadillac Ranch were out there, you would surely miss them on this morning! And if you didn't know they were there and just went for a walk through the fence and across the field, you would be in for a big surprise about 50 yds in! This is the famous or infamous Cadillac Ranch, near Amarillo TX, along Route 66. Roadside America explains it best: "Cadillac Ranch was invented and built by a group of art-hippies imported from San Francisco. They called themselves The Ant Farm, and their silent partner was Amarillo billionaire Stanley Marsh 3. He wanted a piece of public art that would baffle the locals, and the hippies came up with a tribute to the evolution of the Cadillac tail fin. Ten Caddies were driven into one of Stanley Marsh 3's fields, then half-buried, nose-down, in the dirt (supposedly at the same angle as the Great Pyramid of Giza). They faced west in a line, from the 1949 Club Sedan to the 1963 Sedan de Ville, their tail fins held high for all to see on the empty Texas panhandle. That was in 1974. People would stop along the highway, walk out to view the cars -- then deface them or rip off pieces as souvenirs. Stanley Marsh 3 and The Ant Farm were tolerant of this public deconstruction of their art -- although it doomed the tail fins -- and eventually came to encourage it. Decades have passed. The Cadillacs have now been in the ground as art longer than they were on the road as cars. They are stripped to their battered frames, splattered in day-glo paint splooge, barely recognizable as automobiles." They can't help themselves, they even spray paint the fence!

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June 23rd, 2015