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Highway 66, Chambliss, California, February, 1986
By Steve Fitch
Located in Sante Fe, NM
western roadside landscape including topologies of neon motel signs, drive-in movie theaters, radio towers
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Drive-in theater, Van Horn, Texas;January 2, 1981
By Steve Fitch
Located in Sante Fe, NM
western roadside landscape including topologies of neon motel signs, drive-in movie theaters, radio towers
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Star-Vu Drive-in theater, Longmont, Colorado; July, 1980
By Steve Fitch
Located in Sante Fe, NM
western roadside landscape including topologies of neon motel signs, drive-in movie theaters, radio towers
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Utah and Colorado state line, Highway 50; October 16, 1982
By Steve Fitch
Located in Sante Fe, NM
western roadside landscape including topologies of neon motel signs, drive-in movie theaters, radio towers
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Jaguar with a rattlesnake tail petroglyph, Three Rivers, New Mexico; January 10,
By Steve Fitch
Located in Sante Fe, NM
western roadside landscape including topologies of neon motel signs, drive-in movie theaters, radio towers
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Contemporary portrait "Checkpoint for Burned-Out Souls"
Located in Zofingen, AG
stands near the booth, while the other walks toward a distant motel sign, suggesting a deeper narrative
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Abandoned Truck Stop, Highway I-80, Winnemucca, Nevada; 1970
By Steve Fitch
Located in Sante Fe, NM
western roadside landscape including topologies of neon motel signs, drive-in movie theaters, radio towers
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Pink Champagne Motel, Wildwood, New Jersey - Doo Wop sign color photography
By Richard Heeps
Located in Cambridge, GB
Pink Champagne Motel, from Richard Heeps' Jersey Shores series, taken in the Doo Wop Capital of the
Category

2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Pink Champagne Motel, Wildwood, New Jersey - Doo Wop sign color photography
By Richard Heeps
Located in Cambridge, GB
Pink Champagne Motel, from Richard Heeps' Jersey Shores series, taken in the Doo Wop Capital of the
Category

2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Pink Champagne Motel, Wildwood, New Jersey - Doo Wop sign color photography
By Richard Heeps
Located in Cambridge, GB
Pink Champagne Motel, from Richard Heeps' Jersey Shores series, taken in the Doo Wop Capital of the
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Elm Motel, Oil Painting
By Mitchell Freifeld
Located in San Francisco, CA
/>Words that describe this painting: buildings, travel, trees, motel, hotel, sign, road, street
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

"No Gas, No Lodging, Hwy 76, Roggen, CO" (2024), Western Landscape Oil Painting
By Don Stinson
Located in Denver, CO
vast stretch of snowy Colorado plains, with an abandoned motel sign standing stark in front of a
Category

2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Palm Trees in the Rain (Stranger than Paradise) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
focuses on landscapes and buildings –such as Motel Signs, Palm Trees, Trailer Parks - that immediately
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Palm Trees in the Rain (Stranger than Paradise) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
focus on landscapes and buildings –such as Motel Signs, Palm Trees, Trailer Parks - that immediately
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Palm Trees in the Rain (Stranger than Paradise) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
focus on landscapes and buildings –such as Motel Signs, Palm Trees, Trailer Parks - that immediately
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Palm Trees in the Rain (Stranger than Paradise) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
focus on landscapes and buildings –such as Motel Signs, Palm Trees, Trailer Parks - that immediately
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Palm Trees in the Rain (Stranger than Paradise) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
focus on landscapes and buildings –such as Motel Signs, Palm Trees, Trailer Parks - that immediately
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Palm Trees in the Rain (Stranger than Paradise) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
focus on landscapes and buildings –such as Motel Signs, Palm Trees, Trailer Parks - that immediately
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Palm Trees in the Rain (Stranger than Paradise) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
focus on landscapes and buildings –such as Motel Signs, Palm Trees, Trailer Parks - that immediately
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Palm Trees in the Rain (Stranger than Paradise) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
focus on landscapes and buildings –such as Motel Signs, Palm Trees, Trailer Parks - that immediately
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Palm Trees in the Rain (Stranger than Paradise) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
focus on landscapes and buildings –such as Motel Signs, Palm Trees, Trailer Parks - that immediately
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Palm Trees in the Rain (Stranger than Paradise) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
focus on landscapes and buildings –such as Motel Signs, Palm Trees, Trailer Parks - that immediately
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Palm Trees in the Rain (Stranger than Paradise) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
focus on landscapes and buildings –such as Motel Signs, Palm Trees, Trailer Parks - that immediately
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Palm Trees in the Rain (Stranger than Paradise) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
focus on landscapes and buildings –such as Motel Signs, Palm Trees, Trailer Parks - that immediately
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

150, 000 Dollars (The Princess and her Lover)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
expired Polaroid film in the deserts of Southern California, she transforms familiar iconography—motel
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Lariat Motel, Fallon, Nevada - Neon, Americana, Color Photography
By Richard Heeps
Located in Cambridge, GB
'Lariat Motel' is classic roadside Americana 'Sign Porn' photography and Richard Heeps captured it
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Lariat Motel, Fallon, Nevada - Neon, Americana, Color Photography
By Richard Heeps
Located in Cambridge, GB
'Lariat Motel' is classic roadside Americana 'Sign Porn' photography and Richard Heeps captured it
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Transformation (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photography, Portrait
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
like sun-bleached motel signs. The people in her images—lovers, drifters, dreamers—aren’t moving
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Morning (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
like sun-bleached motel signs. The people in her images—lovers, drifters, dreamers—aren’t moving
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Let it be (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
promises are fading like sun-bleached motel signs. The people in her images—lovers, drifters, dreamers
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Daunting (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
like sun-bleached motel signs. The people in her images—lovers, drifters, dreamers—aren’t moving
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Shadows (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
like sun-bleached motel signs. The people in her images—lovers, drifters, dreamers—aren’t moving
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Ravished (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
like sun-bleached motel signs. The people in her images—lovers, drifters, dreamers—aren’t moving
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Puppy Love (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
promises are fading like sun-bleached motel signs. The people in her images—lovers, drifters, dreamers
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Musing (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
like sun-bleached motel signs. The people in her images—lovers, drifters, dreamers—aren’t moving
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

A Million Pieces (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
promises are fading like sun-bleached motel signs. The people in her images—lovers, drifters, dreamers
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Elsewhere (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
promises are fading like sun-bleached motel signs. The people in her images—lovers, drifters, dreamers
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Ladies Room (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
promises are fading like sun-bleached motel signs. The people in her images—lovers, drifters, dreamers
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Lackadaisy (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
promises are fading like sun-bleached motel signs. The people in her images—lovers, drifters, dreamers
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Sunset (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
like sun-bleached motel signs. The people in her images—lovers, drifters, dreamers—aren’t moving
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Sky Ranch Motel, Las Vegas, Nevada by David Graham, 1988, C-Print, Photography
By David Graham
Located in Denton, TX
edition of 25. This photograph features a motel with a drained pool, and a large sign that states "Sky
Category

20th Century Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Color

“American Rural, Signs #6” Contemporary Colorful Country Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
large marquee sign for the Alamo Travel Center and Motel near San Antonio, TX. Signed by the artist in
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Contemporary portrait "Do You Know?.."
Located in Zofingen, AG
under a neon “Roy’s Motel Café” sign, captures mid-20th-century Americana. The glowing retro sign
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

"1 E" American Realist oil painting of a parked vintage car outside cottage
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"1 E" is an American Realist painting of a parked vintage car at a motel in Florida. Framed
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Oil

Tucumcari, New Mexico by David Graham, 2000, Archival Pigment Print, Photography
By David Graham
Located in Denton, TX
edition of 25. This photograph features the Blue Swallow Motel neon sign. This photograph is signed by
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Thunderbird - large scale photograph of iconic mid century neon signage
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Thunderbird by Frank Schott large format photograph of iconic mid century motel neon sign 48 x 60
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

White Castle II
Located in Fairfield, CT
he’d experienced in his Kodak travels, he was fascinated by the humble diners, motels, and vintage
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Still Ten Cents
Located in Fairfield, CT
he’d experienced in his Kodak travels, he was fascinated by the humble diners, motels, and vintage
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

The Brooklyn Diner
Located in Fairfield, CT
he’d experienced in his Kodak travels, he was fascinated by the humble diners, motels, and vintage
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Blue Car in Havana
Located in Fairfield, CT
he’d experienced in his Kodak travels, he was fascinated by the humble diners, motels, and vintage
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Cherokee, North Carolina; August
By Steve Fitch
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In “American Motel Signs” Steve Fitch crisscrossed the United States documenting the colorful
Category

20th Century Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Motel Signs, 1979 to 1989
By Steve Fitch
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Motel Signs 1979 to 1980
By Steve Fitch
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Motel Signs, 1980 to 1985
By Steve Fitch
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Motel Signs, 1980 to 2007
By Steve Fitch
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Motel Signs, 1979 to 2005
By Steve Fitch
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Motel Signs, 1997 to 2007
By Steve Fitch
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Motel Signs For Sale on 1stDibs

There is a broad range of motel signs for sale on 1stDibs. A selection of these works in the Pop Art, Abstract and Modern styles can be found today in our inventory. These items have been produced for many years, with earlier versions available from the 20th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 21st Century. If you’re looking to add motel signs that pop against an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include that feature elements of gray, black, blue and more. There have been many well-done artworks of this subject over the years, but those made by Steve Fitch, Richard Heeps, Mitchell Funk, Hideoki Hagiwara and Christian Patterson are often thought to be among the most beautiful. Frequently made by artists working in paper, silver gelatin print and archival pigment print, all of these available pieces are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Large motel signs can be an attractive addition to some spaces, while the smaller iterations available — each spanning 19 inches in width — may make for a better choice for a more modest living area.

How Much are Motel Signs?

Prices for art of this kind can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — motel signs in our inventory begin at $695 and can go as high as $5,625, while the average can fetch as much as $2,000.

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