Ed Ruscha More Art
American, b. 1937
Indisputably one of the most iconic American artists of the 20th century, Ed Ruscha has built a formidable body of work by staking a claim on the deceptively simple intersection of text and image, superimposing elliptical phrases (or, often, single words) over West Coast landscapes to create prints and paintings that can be read instantaneously yet evade easy understanding.
Alongside artists like Robert Irwin and Billy Al Bengston, Ruscha was a pioneer of the 1960s Los Angeles art scene as part of the famed Ferus Gallery. His embrace of Hollywood vernacular and the open Western road have tied him as closely to the identity of L.A. art as Jackson Pollock is to that of New York.
Coming to California in 1956 at the age of 18, Ruscha intended to become a commercial painter but found himself drawn to fine art, over time being shaped by three galvanizing influences: Marcel Duchamp, Pop art and the movies.
Meeting Duchamp when the Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum) hosted the French Conceptual artist's first U.S. show, Ruscha was especially affected by his use of "readymade" objects and imagery, rendered unfamiliar through unexpected titles or text. Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup can paintings, meanwhile, were shown for the first time at the Ferus Gallery in 1962, opening up new vistas for Ruscha. Movies, then, provided another inspiration through their use of title cards, placing graphic text over filmic shots — The End, for instance — for maximum impact.
Ruscha began his famous series of word paintings in the 1960s, depicting various views of the Hollywood sign and the logos of studios like 20th Century Fox, but also roadside views like the Standard Oil stations dotting L.A.'s freeways. Over time these became more abstracted, pinning ambiguous, free-floating phrases (Wall Rockets is a famous example) to natural vistas, scenes of highways, or monochrome backgrounds. Beginning in about 1980, the artist began using a sharp font he designed himself, called Boy Scout Utility Modern.
A master printmaker who also works across the mediums of books, drawing, photography and even film — in 2009 he starred in a movie directed by the artist Doug Aitken — Ruscha has been an influence on a staggering array of artists, including Stephen Shore, Christopher Wool and Anselm Kiefer.
Ruscha's work has been featured in dozens of exhibitions around the world, including "Ed Ruscha: 50 Years of Painting" at London's Hayward Gallery (2009), "Ed Ruscha: Made in Los Angeles" at Madrid's Reina Sofia in 2002, a 2000 retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, a survey of his works-on-paper at the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1998, and a 1982 retrospective that traveled to the Whitney Museum. In 2005 he represented the United States at the 51st Venice Biennale, and in 2009 he received a National Arts Award.
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Artist: Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha, He Up and Went Downtown, Porcelain Plate, 2020
By Ed Ruscha
Located in London, GB
Ed Ruscha, He Up and Went Downtown, Porcelain Plate, 2020
Porcelain plate
From a limited edition of 175
10.5 × 10.5 in (26.7 × 26.7 cm)
NOTES: The only edition to date from Ruscha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ed Ruscha More Art
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Porcelain
Ed Ruscha Colored People (1st edition)
By Ed Ruscha
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Ed Ruscha Colored People 1972:
In this first and only edition, Ruscha indirectly addresses the sociological meaning of the term “colored people” by paradoxically depicting no literal...
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1970s Pop Art Ed Ruscha More Art
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Paper
Ed Ruscha Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass 1968 (1st edition)
By Ed Ruscha
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Ed Ruscha Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass 1968:
1st edition of Ed Ruscha's Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass. The highly collectible Ed Ruscha artsit book featuring prin...
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1960s Pop Art Ed Ruscha More Art
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Paper
SIGNED Ed Ruscha A Few Palm Trees (Ed Ruscha A Few Palm Trees 1st edition)
By Ed Ruscha
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Ed Ruscha A Few Palm Trees 1971 (1st edition):
Hand-signed 1st edition of Ed Ruscha's A Few Palm Trees. The highly collectible Ed Ruscha artsit book featuring photographs of thirteen...
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Paper
Ed Ruscha, Babycakes with Weigths: Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, Pop Art
By Ed Ruscha
Located in Hamburg, DE
Ed Ruscha (American, b. 1937)
Babycakes with Weigths, 1970
Medium: Artist's book, offset printed (white paper, blue paper with green flocking, pink satin ribbon)
Dimensions: 19 × 15....
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20th Century Pop Art Ed Ruscha More Art
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Signed Edition by ED RUSCHA OKLAHOMA 2021 Hardcover Catalog Contemporary Art
By Ed Ruscha
Located in Draper, UT
OKLA 2021 Catalog:
Limited edition of 100 copies signed by artist Ed Ruscha
This fully illustrated catalogue documents the landmark exhibition as installed at Oklahoma Contemporary...
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2010s Contemporary Ed Ruscha More Art
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Science is Truth Found Out
By Ed Ruscha
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Ruscha, Edward
Title: Science is Truth Found Out
Series: (RED)ition Winter 2022
Date: 2022
Medium: Silk twill scarf
Unframed Dimensions: 51.25" x 51.25"
Comes folded in the original presentation box (13 1/2 x 13 1/2in)
Signature: Printed signature
Edition: numbered from the edition of 500 (61/500 & 62/500 available)
Produced by Massif Central...
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2010s Contemporary Ed Ruscha More Art
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Textile, Silk
Kerouac's On the Road (10 sandwiches with bread and salami), SIGNED by Ed Ruscha
By Ed Ruscha
Located in New York, NY
Ed Ruscha
On the Road (10 sandwiches with bread and salami) (Hand signed and dated by Ed Ruscha), 2010
Letterpress on paper with tipped-in die-cut photograph
Hand signed and dated 20...
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2010s Pop Art Ed Ruscha More Art
Materials
Etching, Mixed Media, Pencil, Lithograph, Offset
OLD SMOBILE (Hand signed and inscribed to famous California native Stan Smith)
By Ed Ruscha
Located in New York, NY
Ed Ruscha
OLD SMOBILE (Hand signed and inscribed to famous California native Stan Smith), 1989
Limited Edition Softcover monograph (Hand signed and inscribed to famous California nat...
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1980s Pop Art Ed Ruscha More Art
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Paper, Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset
GOD (signed and numbered from the limited edition of 50, in Artist's Frame)
By Ed Ruscha
Located in New York, NY
Ed Ruscha
GOD, 2010
Digital Light Jet Print in Artist-Designed Frame
Edition 48/50
Hand-signed by artist, Signed, numbered and dated 48/50 by Ed Ruscha in ink on the back
Provenance...
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2010s Pop Art Ed Ruscha More Art
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Every Building on the Sunset Strip, 1st Edition, Signed & inscribed w/provenance
By Ed Ruscha
Located in New York, NY
“I don’t have any Seine River like Monet, I’ve just got US 66 between Oklahoma and Los Angeles.” — Ed Ruscha
An example of this rare Artist Book was exhibited prominently at the Museum of Modern Art in New York for the 2023-4 Ed Ruscha retrospective. Keep scrolling right of header image to see installation photographs of that exhibit to show how MoMA displayed this accordion style book with slipcase. (the last images)
This is the 1966 true 1st Edition of Ed Ruscha's groundbreaking self-published artist book "Every Building on Sunset Strip." The book itself was published in an unsigned edition of 1000. However, in 1980, exceptionally, Ruscha hand signed and beautifully inscribed this book in red ink to football legend Joe Fields.
(Joseph Charles Fields Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a center and guard in the National Football League for the New York Jets and the New York Giants.)
This book is also in the original slipcase.
Dimensions
slip case: 7 5/16 x 5 13/16 x
9/16" (18.5 x 14.7 x 1.5 cm)
This historic limited edition Artists Book is in the permanent collection of the Getty Museum in California which explains its importance as follows:
In the 1960s, Ed Ruscha more or less reinvented the artist’s book. By turning away from the craftsmanship and luxury status that typified the livre d’artiste in favor of the artistic idea or concept, expressed simply through photographs and text, Ruscha opened the genre to the possibilities of mass-production and distribution. The 25-foot length of the accordion-folded Every Building on the Sunset Strip affords the viewer two continuous photographic views of the mile and a half section of this landmark stretch of Sunset, one for each side of one of the city’s landmark thoroughfare.
Among many other institutions, it also in the permanent collection of MOMA, which describes "Every Building on the Sunset Strip" thus:
Ruscha's photography books are antithetical to the traditional limited-edition livre d'artiste, or artist's book. Their banal subject matter and documentary style are indebted to the remarkable pictures of signs and vernacular architecture that American photographer Walker Evans made in the 1930s, but their deadpan, cool aesthetic is radically different. While each book chronicles an aspect of Los Angeles or the artist's round-trip drives between LA and Oklahoma, their use of photography as a form of map-making or topographical study signals a conceptual, rather than documentary, thrust.
Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999, Catalogue Raisonné, Engberg, vol. 1, ppg. 84-85 and vol. 2, pg. 124, no. B4
Publisher:
Dick de Ruscha...
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1960s Pop Art Ed Ruscha More Art
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Some Los Angeles Apartments - Artist Book published in a limited edition of 3000
By Ed Ruscha
Located in New York, NY
Ed Ruscha
Some Los Angeles Apartments, 1970
Softback monograph with stiff wraps
Second Edition Limited Edition of 3000 (the first edition in 1968 was 700)
Not Signed
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1970s Pop Art Ed Ruscha More Art
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Cactus Omelette by Ed Ruscha
By Ed Ruscha
Located in London, GB
Cactus Omelette
by Ed Ruscha
2019
Screenprint on cotton
28 × 26 2/5 in 71 × 67 cm
Edition of 100
Condition - Excellent, 'as new' condition
Ed Ruscha is an American artist ce...
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2010s Contemporary Ed Ruscha More Art
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Cotton, Screen
The Amazing Earth, recyclable bag, in gift box hand signed twice by Ed Ruscha
By Ed Ruscha
Located in New York, NY
Ed Ruscha
The Amazing Earth, in gift box hand signed twice by Ed Ruscha, ca. 2017
Re-usable ocean bag created from 5 intercepted plastic bottles. In presentation box, uniquely hand s...
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2010s Pop Art Ed Ruscha More Art
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Plastic, Mixed Media
Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass (Hand signed by Ed Ruscha)
By Ed Ruscha
Located in New York, NY
Ed Ruscha
Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass (HAND SIGNED), 1976
Limited Edition Artist's Book
Boldly signed by Ed Ruscha on the first front end page
7 × 5 1/2 inches
This is the...
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1970s Pop Art Ed Ruscha More Art
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A Particular Kind of Heaven towel
By Ed Ruscha
Located in Washington , DC, DC
A Particular Kind of Heaven towel
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ed Ruscha More Art
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Untitled (Hell 1/2 Way Heaven promo)
By Ed Ruscha
Located in Washington , DC, DC
A play on the phrase "halfway between heaven and hell," this fully authorized color reproduction of the original print was printed on quality paper and...
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1980s Contemporary Ed Ruscha More Art
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Harmless Dinners plate
By Ed Ruscha
Located in Washington , DC, DC
stamped with text Ed Ruscha 2012 en verso
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ed Ruscha More Art
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Plate Glass
Make New History
By Ed Ruscha
Located in Washington , DC, DC
Ed Ruscha multiple published on the occasion of the Gala of the 30th Anniversary of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Printed in an edition of approximately 1000 copies ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ed Ruscha More Art
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Linen
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- Why is Ed Ruscha important?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Ed Ruscha is a multi-medium contemporary artist who has widely been hailed as an important player in the Pop Art movement. You can shop a selection of Ed Ruscha’s pieces from some of the world’s top art dealers on 1stDibs
- What is Ed Ruscha famous for?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Ed Ruscha is famous for his text paintings made during the 1960s. The American conceptual and Pop art artist was born on December 16, 1937, in Omaha, Nebraska. On 1stDibs, you can shop a collection of Ed Ruscha textual art.
- What is Ed Ruscha's art style?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertFebruary 27, 2024Ed Ruscha's art style is Pop art. He is especially well known for elevating words and signage into works of art. Ruscha began his famous series of word paintings in the 1960s, depicting various views of the Hollywood sign and the logos of studios like 20th Century Fox, but also roadside views like the Standard Oil stations dotting L.A.'s freeways. Over time, these became more abstract, with ambiguous, free-floating phrases pinned to natural vistas, scenes of highways and monochrome backgrounds. Shop a variety of Ed Ruscha art on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertMay 14, 2024The Sand in the Vaseline from Ed Ruscha is the name of a work of art. Ruscha produced the piece by painting the words "sand in the vaseline" in egg yolk on gray satin. His goal in producing the painting was to evoke feelings of confusion in the viewer. When asked about his motives, he responded, "Isn't disorientation one of the best things about making art?" Find a range of Ed Ruscha art on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022Yes, Ed Ruscha is a conceptual artist. His work also shows elements of Pop art. However, the artist does not associate his own work with either movement. He is well known for his text paintings first produced during the 1960s. Find a variety of Ed Ruscha on 1stDibs.
- How did Ed Ruscha make his art?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Ed Ruscha made his well-known collage art by combining words and images from advertisements and other pieces of media. He often incorporated found items and unconventional materials like blood, liquid medicine and food. You'll find a selection of Ed Ruscha art on 1stDibs.