Your Space on Building

2006

Ed Ruscha

Associated Names
Ed Ruscha

Artist, American, born 1937

Dena Schuckit

Printer, American, active late 20th century

Crown Point Press

Publisher

The image shows a large, unadorned billboard structure viewed from below against a pale sky. The horizon is not visible. The structure and perspective focus on the billboard and its scaffolding. The brushstrokes or lines are precise and clean, with minimal texture. The color palette is muted, with soft grays and blues. The base of the billboard is visible, supporting the geometric framework leading to the rectangular surface dominating the upper part of the image, blending with the sky.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color aquatint with sugarlift aquatint and flatbite etching on Somerset wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Kathan Brown

  • Dimensions

    plate: 60.33 × 50.48 cm (23 3/4 × 19 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 75.25 × 63.18 cm (29 5/8 × 24 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2011.119.111

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Engberg 1999, undescribed

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Kathan Brown, San Francisco; gift to NGA, 2011

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: O.K.T.P.; lower right in graphite: Ed Ruscha 2006; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: Ruscha: Your Space on Building OKTP; lower right edge of verso in graphite by unkown hand: WP7 ALL STEEL PAYNES/+EX 981

Wikidata ID

Q76560279

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