Edward Ruscha

Gagosian Gallery By Edward Ruscha

2014

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago By James Rosenquist 1972 Medium: Offset Lithograph Paper Size: 30.25 x 22 inches ( 77 x 56 cm ) Image Size: 30 x 22 inches ( 76 x 56 cm ) Ed...

While The Earth Revolved At Night By James Rosenquist 1982 Medium: Offset Lithograph Paper Size: 18.5 x 29.5 inches ( 47 x 75 cm ) Image Size: 11 x 28 inches ( 28 x 71 cm ) Ed...

Richard Prince, Dude Ranch Nurse, Lithograph with Collage, 2008 Lithograph with collage with offset lithography, hand colouring, hand cutting and pencil F...

Short Cuts, 8th New York Film Festival By James Rosenquist 1970 Medium: Offset Lithograph Paper Size: 34.5 x 23.75 inches ( 88 x 60 cm ) Image Size: 34 x 23.25 inches ( 86 x 59...

Very rare original poster for Ed Ruscha's 2006 exhibition "Ed Ruscha: Photographer". The exhibition was held at Museum Ludwig from 2 September - 26 November in Köln (in cooperation w...

Ed Ruscha Paintings (Hand signed by Ed Ruscha), 2014 Offset lithograph print (Hand signed on the front) Published by Gagosian Gallery, Rome 26 × 27 inches Unframed Highly collectible when hand signed by Ed Ruscha Provenance: Donated by the artist to a major arts charity Acquired by the present owner from the above Accompanied by original documentation sheet from the charity as provenance This poster featuring Gal Chews Same Gum Since 1963 (2014) was produced in 2014, in conjunction with Ed Ruscha: Paintings at Gagosian, Rome. The exhibition included recent paintings in which the artist continues to meditate on the melancholy of the Psycho Spaghetti Westerns in complex pictures that conflate his signature elements with the visual devices, perspectival techniques, and refined atmospheres of old master paintings to depict the romantic road trip of youth reduced to roadside dystopia. Provenance: donated by Ed Ruscha to a major charitable arts organization. About Ed Ruscha: There are things that I’m constantly looking at that I feel should be elevated to greater status, almost to philosophical status or to a religious status. That’s why taking things out of context is a useful tool to an artist. It’s the concept of taking something that’s not subject matter and making it subject matter. —Ed Ruscha At the start of his artistic career, Ed Ruscha called himself an “abstract artist ... who deals with subject matter.” Abandoning academic connotations that came to be associated with Abstract Expressionism, he looked instead to tropes of advertising and brought words—as form, symbol, and material—to the forefront of painting. Working in diverse media with humor and wit, he oscillates between sign and substance, locating the sublime in landscapes both natural and artificial. In 1956, Ruscha moved from Oklahoma City to Los Angeles, where he attended the Chouinard Art Institute. During his time in art school, he had been painting in the manner of Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning, and came across a reproduction of Jasper Johns’s Target...

Rare original poster from Ed Ruscha’s 2002 exhibition titled "Ed Ruscha", held at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg from February 2 to April 28, 2002. This poster is hand-signed by the artist i...

Ed Ruscha Domestic Tranquility: Rare 1970s Ed Ruscha announcement card published by Castelli Graphics, New York on occasion of the release of Ruscha’s "Domestic Tranquility" suite. ...