Those pictures still have a life,” he said. “The Cadillacs were buried when I was 22 and just getting started as a photographer.
And so “the hood ornament of Route 66,” lives on, constantly changing as passing graffiti artists leave their stamp on it.Īmarillo native and longtime Texas Monthly photographer Wyatt McSpadden, who went to work for Marsh when he was nineteen years old, has been documenting the evolution of the art installation since before the first car went into the ground. (Read Skip Hollandsworth’s obituary of Marsh here.) In the wake of those revelations, Amarilloans weren’t sure what to think of the Cadillac Ranch anymore (one even suggested bulldozing it), but this unease largely lifted after a settlement to a lawsuit revealed that Marsh no longer owned the property. Marsh’s legacy was tainted in his final years after a string of teenage boys alleged he had sexually abused them.
This is an eventful week for the Cadillac Ranch, one of the most celebrated roadside landmarks in the country: on Saturday, the site celebrates its fortieth anniversary, and on Tuesday, Stanley Marsh 3, the art installation’s eccentric millionaire benefactor, died. In 1974, three artists from San Francisco found themselves in Potter County, Texas, burying ten Cadillacs nose first into a Texas wheat field alongside Interstate 40, an art installation that would eventually come to be known as Cadillac Ranch.
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