Description
This Chevrolet Impala wall art parks a black convertible on a residential street under palms, the car low and long across the bottom of the frame and the trees running straight up out of the top of it.
The composition is doing something simple and effective: one very horizontal object against a row of very vertical ones. Nothing else in the frame is allowed to compete. The palms are not scenery, they are the other half of the picture, and without them the car would be a car on a street.
Chevrolet Impala wall art, horizontal against vertical
This is a wide frame that wants a wide wall, and the vertical palms give it enough height to survive above a low sofa without looking like a letterbox. Monochrome keeps a naturally sunny subject from tipping into pastiche, which is what colour usually does to this kind of picture.
A nameplate that outlasted its shape
The Impala was built across several distinct eras separated by long gaps, and the name has been attached to cars with almost nothing in common, so an Impala is a nameplate rather than a shape. Its full production history is at Wikipedia. This car’s generation is not recorded here.
Hang it with
Three that sit well beside it: 1967 Mustang black and white poster, New York black and white poster, BMW E30 poster, or browse the whole classic car poster collection.
Printed and shipped by Montclair
Every Montclair poster is made to order, so nothing is stocked and nothing is ever out of stock. Yours is printed with archival pigment inks rather than dye, as a giclee at 300 dpi on 200 gsm (80 lb) archival matte paper, FSC-certified or equivalent, with a smooth, uncoated, non-reflective surface at 0.26 mm (10.3 mils). It goes on the press within 72 hours. Delivery is tracked and free worldwide, typically 8 to 13 days, with shipping already inside the price. Unframed posters ship rolled in a rigid tube. Framing is available from 27×35 cm to 70×100 cm in solid wood, assembled by hand with hanging hardware fitted to the back.
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