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Ed Ruscha

Big Dipper over Desert, 1982

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Medium

color aquatint on Somerset wove paper

Dimensions

image: 60 x 90.5 cm (23 5/8 x 35 5/8 in.)

sheet: 76.2 x 110.8 cm (30 x 43 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Kathan Brown

Catalogue Raisonné

Engberg 1999, no. 131

Accession Number

1998.40.395

Artists / Makers

Ed Ruscha (artist) American, born 1937

Crown Point Press (publisher)

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Inscription

in graphite lower left: O.K.T.P.; lower right: Ed Ruscha

Provenance

Acquired by NGA in 1998 directly from Kathan Brown.

Associated Names

Brown, Kathan

Exhibition History

2017: The American Dream: Pop to the Present, The British Museum, London, 2017, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1999: Engberg, Siri, and Clive Phillpot. Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999, Catalogue Raisonné. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1999: no. 131.

2017: Coppel, Stephen, et al. The American Dream: Pop to the Present. London: Thames & Hudson, 2017, p. 120, no. 66.

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