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Object Details

Artist

Ed Ruscha, American, b. Omaha, Nebraska, 1937

Provenance

Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles, to January 1968

Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, January 1968-1972

Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972

Exhibition History

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Ed Ruscha," 29 June-17 September 2000, cat. Tour: MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Chicago, 20 November-5 February 2001; MIAMI ART MUSEUM, 22 March-3 June; MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH, 1 July-30 September; MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Oxford, England, 28 October-13 January 2002.

CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, Paris. "Los Angeles 1955-1985: Birth of an Artistic Capital," 8 March-17 July 2006.

HAYWARD GALLERY, London. "Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting," 14 October-10 January 2010, cat. ill. p. 103. Tour: HAUS DE KUNST, Munich, 12 February-2 May 2010; MODERNA MUSEET, Stockholm, 29 May-5 September, 2010.

GETTY CENTER, Los Angeles. "Pacific Standard Time: Painting and Sculpture in Los Angeles 1945-1970," 1 October 2011-5 February 2012.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950," 24 October 2013-26 May 2014, fig. 25 (color), p. 141. Tour: MUSEE D'ART MODERNE GRAND-DUC JEAN, Luxembourg, 5 July-12 October; KUNSTHAUS GRAZ, Austria, 14 November-15 March 2015.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection," 9 June 2016-6 August 2017, no cat.

MUSEE NATIONAL DES BEAUX-ARTS DU QUEBEC. "America. Between Dreams and Realities: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection," 9 June-5 September 2022, color ill. pp. 34-35.

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York, "Ed Ruscha/Now Then," 10 September 2023-13 January 2024; LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, 7 April-6 October 2024, color ill. p. 124-125.

Published References

WOLF, SYLVIA. "Ed Ruscha and Photography," (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art and Göttingen, Germany: Steidl Verlag, 2004), pp. 238-239, ill. 275.

AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 209, pp. 232-233.

SMERLING, WALTER, ed. Norbert Kricke: Bewegung im Raum (Duisberg: MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, 2022), color ill. p. 12.

REINOZA, TATIANA. Reclaiming the Americas: Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2023), fig. 1.8, p. 45.

Credit Line

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972

Date

(1965-1968)

Accession Number

72.252

Type

Painting

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

53 1/2 x 133 1/2 in. (135.9 x 339.1 cm)

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School

Pop Art (West Coast)

Data Source

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py29f765b52-6e00-4163-b97a-662598fdd419

Record ID

hmsg_72.252