Model T Headquarters
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Object Label
This image shows the rooms that were the elegant Detroit executive offices of Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, in the 1910s and 1920s. The wood paneling has lost its luster, and a lush carpet of brilliant green moss now covers the floor. The decrepit state of Ford’s office—a contemporary ruin of a glorious, not too distant past—becomes a metaphor not only for the fate of the automobile industry or of this once wealthy and important Midwestern city, but also for the deindustrialization of America.
Caption
Andrew Moore American, born 1957. Model T Headquarters, 2009. Digital chromogenic print, 50 × 60 in. (127 × 152.4 cm) frame: 56 × 67 1/2 × 2 in. (142.2 × 171.5 × 5.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Robert A. Levinson Fund, 2010.40. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Photograph courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery, CUR.2010.40_Andrew_Moore_photo.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Model T Headquarters
Date
2009
Medium
Digital chromogenic print
Classification
Dimensions
50 × 60 in. (127 × 152.4 cm) frame: 56 × 67 1/2 × 2 in. (142.2 × 171.5 × 5.1 cm)
Credit Line
Robert A. Levinson Fund
Accession Number
2010.40
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
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