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Ed Ruscha

View of the Big Picture, 1963

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Medium

colored pencil with pen and black ink over graphite on three sheets of wove paper

Dimensions

sheet (each): 55.8 × 45.6 cm (21 15/16 × 17 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Woodward Foundation, Washington, D.C.

Accession Number

1976.56.172.a-c

Artists / Makers

Ed Ruscha (artist) American, born 1937

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Inscription

c) "E. Ruscha 1963" lower left margin, graphite.

Marks and Labels

None.

Provenance

Woodward Foundation.

Associated Names

Woodward Foundation

Exhibition History

1981: Contemporary American Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, March 22-July 26, 1981.

2001: A Century of Drawing, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, no. 101a.

2013: Ed Ruscha - Los Angeles Apartments, Kunstmuseum Basel, 2013, 60-61, no. 28, repro.

Bibliography

2001: A Century of Drawing. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 101a.

2013: Müller, Christian. Ed Ruscha-Los Angeles Apartments. Exh. Cat. (Kunstmuseum Basel, 2013), Göttingen: Steidl, 2013, 60-61, cat. no. 28.

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