Big Dipper over Desert

1982

Ed Ruscha

Artist, American, born 1937

Crown Point Press

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color aquatint on Somerset wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Kathan Brown

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    1998.40.395

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Engberg 1999, no. 131


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Acquired by NGA in 1998 directly from Kathan Brown.

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

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

Watermarks

somerset / ENGLAND

Wikidata ID

Q75416248


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