Painting: ""Mister Softee Truck on the Corner of Fourth Street and Park Avenue." By Frank Hanavan, Hoboken, 2007.
Entry/Object ID
2007.077.0004
Description
Painting: ""Mister Softee Truck on the Corner of Fourth Street and Park Avenue." By Frank Hanavan, Hoboken, 2007. Acrylic on canvas, 8" high x 10" wide. Signed at upper right: Hanavan 12-11-07. Additionally marked in pencil by the artist on the reverse of the canvas: Hanavan | 8 x 10 acrylic | 12-07.
The title as catalogued is the one used in exhibition, Frank Hanavan: Painting the Town, Hoboken Historical Museum, Sept.16 - Dec. 28, 2003. (The loaned painting in that exhibition was an earlier, if not his earliest, version and dated 6/14/93; acrylic on canvas, 24" x 30".) This copy is one of several small ones done by Hanavan of this scene.
View is southeast of the ice cream truck parked on Fourth Street near Park Avenue. (Church Square Park is out of view to the left.)
