Hank's Last Ride
Artist
Steven C. White
(born 1963 Lima, Ohio; lives Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Date1999
Mediumacrylic on wood
Dimensions16 × 16 × 1/2 in. (40.6 × 40.6 × 1.3 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Dr. Tey Marianna Nunn
Object numberPC2020.10.1
DescriptionA painting showing the rear end of a blue convertible, driven by a man in a yellow cowboy hat. A passenger in the back seat wears a white cowboy hat and faces toward the back of the vehicle, that is, the viewer. A road sign with the word "Heaven" is visible in the rearview mirror. A tribute to the late country music singer and guitarist Hank Williams, the right bumper is inscribed: "New years eve night, Hank Williams (1923-1953) was on his way to a show in Canton, Ohio when he died of an overdose in his 1952 Cadillac."On View
Not on view
ca. 1940s
June 1955
June 1955
