James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
Private Collection, Sweden
Sotheby's, New York, November 9, 1989, lot 357
Private Collection, Tokyo
Williamstown, Williams College Museum of Art, Edward Ruscha: Words Without Thoughts Never to Heaven Go, July 2 - September 16, 1988
Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art, We Love Painting: The Contemporary American Art from Misumi Collection, December 21, 2002 - March 23, 2003, p. 155 (illustrated)
Tottori Prefectural Museum, Contemporary Voice: The Contemporary American Art from Misumi Collection, November 19 - December 25, 2005, p. 93 (illustrated)
American • 1937
Quintessentially American, Ed Ruscha is an L.A.-based artist whose art, like California itself, is both geographically rooted and a metaphor for an American state of mind. Ruscha is a deft creator of photography, film, painting, drawing, prints and artist books, whose works are simultaneously unexpected and familiar, both ironic and sincere.
His most iconic works are at turns poetic and deadpan, epigrammatic text with nods to advertising copy, juxtaposed with imagery that is either cinematic and sublime or seemingly wry documentary. Whether the subject is his iconic Standard Gas Station or the Hollywood Sign, a parking lot or highway, his works are a distillation of American idealism, echoing the expansive Western landscape and optimism unique to postwar America.
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