Artist: Edward Ruscha ( - )
Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Edward Ruscha, Records by Edward Ruscha (Los Angeles: self published, 1971) , 1971
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Edward Ruscha, Colored People by Edward Ruscha (Los Angeles: self published, 1972), 1972
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Edward Ruscha, Every Building on the Sunset Strip by Edward Ruscha (Los Angeles: self published, 1966) , 1966
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Edward Ruscha, Real Estate Opportunities by Edward Ruscha (Los Angeles: self published, 1970), 1970
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Edward Ruscha, Some Los Angeles Apartments by Edward Ruscha (Los Angeles: self published, 1965 [second edition, 1970]), 1965
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Edward Ruscha, Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles by Edward Ruscha (Los Angeles: self published, 1967), 1967
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Edward Ruscha, Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass by Edward Ruscha (Los Angeles: Self published, 1968), 1968
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Edward Ruscha, Twentysix Gasoline Stations by Edward Ruscha (Los Angeles: self published, 1963 [third ed. 1969]), 1963
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Edward Ruscha, Various Small Fires and Milk by Edward Ruscha (Los Angeles: self published, 1964 [second edition, 1970]), 1964
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Edward Ruscha, Crackers by Edward Ruscha with short story by Mason Williams (Hollywood, California: self published, 1969), 1969
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Edward Ruscha, Mr. Ray, 1975
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Edward Ruscha, Third image in the book Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass by Edward Ruscha (Los Angeles: Self published, 1968), 1968
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Edward Ruscha, Second image in the book Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass by Edward Ruscha (Los Angeles: Self published, 1968), 1968
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Edward Ruscha, First image in the book Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass by Edward Ruscha (Los Angeles: Self published, 1968), 1968
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Edward Ruscha, Fifth image in the book Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass by Edward Ruscha (Los Angeles: Self published, 1968), 1968
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Edward Ruscha, Eighth image in the book Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass by Edward Ruscha (Los Angeles: Self published, 1968), 1968
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Edward Ruscha, Tenth image in the book Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass by Edward Ruscha (Los Angeles: Self published, 1968), 1968
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Edward Ruscha, Seventh image in the book Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass by Edward Ruscha (Los Angeles: Self published, 1968), 1968
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Edward Ruscha, Sixth image in the book Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass by Edward Ruscha (Los Angeles: Self published, 1968), 1968
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Edward Ruscha, Fourth image in the book Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass by Edward Ruscha (Los Angeles: Self published, 1968), 1968
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Edward Ruscha, Ninth image in the book Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass by Edward Ruscha (Los Angeles: Self published, 1968), 1968
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Edward Ruscha, Royal Road Test by Edward Ruscha in collaboration with Mason Williams and Patrick Blackwell (Los Angeles: self published, 1967[third ed. 1971]), 1967
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Edward Ruscha, Made in California, 1971
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Edward Ruscha, Rooster, 1988
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Edward Ruscha, Mocha Standard, 1969
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Edward Ruscha, Trial Proof D for Hourglass, 1988
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Edward Ruscha, Trial Proof D for Heaven, 1988
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Edward Ruscha, Trial Proof for Rooster, 1988
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Edward Ruscha, Trial Proof A for Hourglass, 1988
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Edward Ruscha, Trial Proof A for Heaven, 1988
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Edward Ruscha, Trial Proof A for Hell, 1988
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Edward Ruscha, Heaven, 1988
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Edward Ruscha, Trial Proof for Big Dipper, 1982
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Edward Ruscha, Trial Proof for Jockey, 1988
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Edward Ruscha, Trial Proof for Indecision, 1982
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Edward Ruscha, Trial Proof for Jockey, 1988
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Edward Ruscha, Trial Proof for Indecision, 1982
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Edward Ruscha, Indecision, 1982
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Edward Ruscha, Hourglass, 1988
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Edward Ruscha, Big Dipper, 1982

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (23)
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Museum of Modern Art, Oxford: Ed Ruscha: Paintings, Drawings and Books 1961-2001
When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were guttural utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat.  Those words were like flowers in a vase; I just happened to paint words like someone else paints flowers.  Ed Ruscha Ed Ruscha has t...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago: Ed Ruscha
The show will consist of approximately sixty paintings, twenty-five drawings, and several books This exhibition is coordinated by Manilow Senior Curator Francesco Bonami. This exhibition has been organized by the Hirshh...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999
A key feature of the exhibition is a presentation of Ruschas complete book projects, a body of work that is now considered pivotal in the history of contemporary artists books. Credits: This exhibition was...
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: Ed Ruscha
This retrospective has been co-curated by the Hirshhorn's former Assistan Director for Art and Public Programs Neal Benezra, now with the Art Institute of Chicago, and Kerry Brougher, Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, England. Afte...
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS: Landmark Pictures: Ed Ruscha and Andreas Gursky
The Art Museums have actively collected the art of our times since the early twentieth century. Over the years, these holdings have grown significantly, prompting the recent creation of a curatorial department of modern and contemporary art. T...
Detroit Institute of Art: A Century of Collecting 1900-2000: Drawings from the DIA Collection
Artists from the past through the present are featured including Michelangelo, Cezanne, and Degas as well as Charles Demuth, Diego Rivera, and Ed Ruscha....
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College: Summer Reading: The Recreation of Language in Twentieth-Century Art
Drawn from the collections of the Loeb Art Center and 14 public and private sources, this international survey unites paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, collages, books and book-objects, poet-artist collaborations, and more by over 50 ar...
PS1 Contemporary Art Center: Pacific Coast Highway by Richard Sigmund
To walk past the painting is to cross almost the entire width of the highway, and hanging the work on the wall creates the sensation of an overhead view. As an image/object, it hovers between painting, photography, and relief sculpture, and betwee...
Heather Marx Gallery: Brisk: Paintings by Yek
Using an airbrush to spray a range of colors from day-glo explosions to rich, moody nocturnes onto his concave panels, Yek creates nearly flawless atmospheric abstractions that suggest hyperkinetic landscapes and skyscapes.  Yeks paintings appear ...
Pharmaka: Venice: Inspiring Artists in Italy and California
Meant to investigate this incomparable sense of place through a variety of media (oil and canvas, mixed media and board, metal and glass), new works and collaborations from this on-going project will be exhibited in both Venice, Italy, and Los ...
Phoenix Art Museum: Embracing the Present: The UBS Art Collection
This exhibition has been organized by the Portland Art Museum and is made possible by UBS. One of the foremost collections of contemporary art in the United States, The UBS Art Collection, formerly The PaineWebber Art Collection, began in 1971 wi...
Columbia Museum of Art: POP IMACT! From Johns to Warhol
Included in the exhibition, are icons of the '60s by 17 notable artists including Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselman, Robert Indiana, Marisol, Edward Ruscha, George Segal and Wayne Thiebau...
Laguna Art Museum: 100 Artists See God
The exhibition brings together 100 works by 100 artist who all explore different notions of God, spiritual power, and religion. The artists were invited by Baldessari and Cranston according to several criteria: either because they know and admire...
Austin Museum of Art: Salomon Huerta: Paintings
While his riveting works recall the bright palettes and streamlined compositions of earlier California painters Richard Diebenkorn and Edward Ruscha, Huerta reinvents conventional elements of Pop art, Color Field painting, and portraitu...
Leslie Sacks Fine Art: New Acquisitions: Part Two Contemporary Art
This literal and sometimes even literary approach is really at the heart of contemporary art, much of which is referred to as “post-modern.” An in depth discussion of post-modernism is well beyond the scope of this short writing, but let it suffic...
Dagmar de Pooter Gallery: Cian Quayle: Photographic Readymades and Other Found Objects
This exhibition reprises diverse strands of Quayle‚s recent work, which are connected by his ongoing concern with travel, place and identity. The identity of Quayle's artwork is also investigated in terms of its changed materiality as he travels f...
International Center of Photography: The Open Book: Photographic Publications 1878 to the Present
The Open Book chronicles the art of the photographic book in the twentieth century. This is the •rst museum exhibition to present these publications on their own merits, rather than as a supplement to the main attraction: the photographic print....
National Gallery of Art: Best Impressions: 35 Years of Prints and Sculpture from Gemini G.E.L.
From its beginnings, Gemini has introduced cutting-edge methods of fabrication to realize the visions of its invited artists, said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. We are pleased to present these innovative works by some of t...
Queens Museum of Art: Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection
This landmark exhibition will present a wondrous display of 120 contemporary masterpieces, including: a powerful thirty-eight foot mural by Sam Francis; a soaring mobile by Alexander Calder; and a landmark video installation by Nam Jun...
Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum: Medardo Rosso: Second Impressions
Medardo Rosso: Second Impressions will focus on five sculptures spanning Rosso’s mature career. The works are Aetas aurea (The Golden Age), 1886–87; Grande rieuse (Large Laughing Woman), 1891; Bambino ebreo (Jewish Boy), c. 1892–93; Bookmaker, c. ...
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg: Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age
With the exhibition Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg will present an exploration of the possibilities of pictorial invention open to painting in the age of photographic and digital media. Since th...
Sprengel Musuem: How you look at it: 20th-century Photography
The exhibition How you look at it. 20th-century Photography offers a chance to take stock. It starts by showing how photography has greatly increased in popularity in recent years, mainly obvious by its growing presence in museums w...
Carnegie Museum of Art: 1999 Carnegie International Artists Announced
For more than one hundred years, Carnegie Museum of Art has played an important role among American museums with its presentation of the International, said Richard Armstrong, the Henry J. Heinz II director of the museum. With Madelein...

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