Artworks · Ed Ruscha

"L. C."

1997 · Color screenprint on white wove paper

94 × 68.8 cm (37 1/16 × 27 1/8 in.)

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Coyote

1989 · Lithograph on white wove paper

91.1 × 68.4 cm (35 7/8 × 26 15/16 in.)

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Untitled (Ship)

1988 · Acrylic on white wove paper

151.2 × 100.4 cm (59 9/16 × 39 9/16 in.)

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Rooster

1988 · Color aquatint and hard ground etching on white wove paper

90.7 × 56.5 cm (35 3/4 × 22 1/4 in.)

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F House

1987 · Acrylic on canvas

116.8 × 203.2 cm (46 × 80 in.)

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Smaller Dish

1985 · Dry-pigment on paper

Sight: 101.6 × 152.4 cm (40 × 60 in.)

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She Sure Knew Her Devotionals

1976 · Blue pastel, touches of graphite, on off-white wove paper

57.7 × 72.9 cm (22 3/4 × 28 3/4 in.)

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Seconals, Splinters

1976 · Gunpowder, brush and red watercolor, and yellow pastel, on white wove paper

72.5 × 100.1 cm (28 9/16 × 39 7/16 in.)

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Makeup Department

1975 · Silver dye-bleach print on display film, from the portfolio "Artists and Photographs" (1975)

40.6 × 50.7 cm (16 × 20 in.)

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Moldy Fragments

1975 · Watercolor and brush and black wash, with powdered graphite, on off-white wove paper

36.2 × 57.9 cm (14 5/16 × 22 13/16 in.)

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Insect Slant, from Realities and Paradoxes

1973 · Lithograph and screenprint, from one stone and two screens, in gray and black, on white wove paper

Image/sheet: 56 × 76.5 cm (22 1/16 × 30 1/8 in.)

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It's Only Vanishing Cream

1973 · Shellac on satin

91.4 × 101.6 cm (36 × 40 in.)

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Space

1971 · Gunpowder and pastel on cream wove paper

58.4 × 73.7 cm (23 × 29 1/16 in.)

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Drops

1971 · Lithograph on cream wove paper

51 × 71 cm (20 1/8 × 28 in.)

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Calgrove Blvd. & Wiley Canyon Rd., Newhall

1970 · Gelatin silver print, from "Real Estate Opportunities"

Image/paper: 11.3 × 11.5 cm (4 1/2 × 4 9/16 in.)

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Babycakes

1970 · Letterpress printed booklet, pink ribbon, felt

19 × 15.4 cm (7 1/2 × 6 1/8 in.)

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Adios

1969 · Color lithograph on white wove paper

23.8 × 55.7 cm (9 3/8 × 21 15/16 in.)

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Mint

1969 · Color lithograph on white wove paper

Image: 24 × 55 cm (9 1/2 × 21 11/16 in.); Sheet: 43 × 61.5 cm (16 15/16 × 24 1/4 in.)

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Cheese Mold Standard with Olive

1969 · Color screenprint on ivory wove paper

Image: 49.4 × 93.5 cm (19 1/2 × 36 13/16 in.); Sheet: 64.7 × 101.2 cm (25 1/2 × 39 7/8 in.)

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Double Standard

1969 · Color screenprint on ivory wove paper

Image: 49.4 × 93.5 cm (19 1/2 × 36 13/16 in.); Sheet: 65.1 × 101.4 cm (25 11/16 × 39 15/16 in.)

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Moca Standard

1969 · Color screenprint on ivory wove paper

Image: 49.4 × 93.5 cm (19 1/2 × 36 13/16 in.); Sheet: 64.8 × 101.2 cm (25 9/16 × 39 7/8 in.)

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City

1968 · Oil on canvas

139.7 × 121.9 cm (55 × 48 in.)

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Trailer

1968 · Rubbed gunpowder on white wove paper

28.1 × 73 cm (11 1/8 × 28 3/4 in.)

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Hollywood

1968 · Color screenprint on cream laid paper

Image: 31.7 × 103.4 cm (12 1/2 × 40 3/4 in.); Sheet: 44.5 × 113 cm (17 9/16 × 44 1/2 in.)

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Salt

1967 · Graphite with smudging on white wove paper

36.8 × 58.5 cm (14 1/2 × 23 1/16 in.)

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Schrafft's Hollywood Study

1967 · Blue ballpoint pen and graphite on textured off-white wove paper placemat (discolored to light yellow), with off-set lithography in yellowish brown metal ink

20.3 × 30.7 cm (8 × 12 1/8 in.)

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Robinson's Department Store and Beverly Hilton Hotel

1967 · Gelatin silver print, from "Parking Lots"

Image: 26.9 × 33.7 cm (10 5/8 × 13 5/16 in.); Paper: 28 × 35.3 cm (11 1/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

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Santa Monica Blvd. from Roxbury to Wilshire Blvd.

1967 · Gelatin silver print, from "Parking Lots"

Image: 13.5 × 33.8 cm (5 3/8 × 13 5/16 in.); Paper: 14.1 × 35.4 cm (5 9/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

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Fashion Square, Sherman Oaks (detail)

1967 · Gelatin silver print, from "Thirtyfour Parking Lots"

Image: 14.2 × 18.9 cm (5 5/8 × 7 1/2 in.); Paper: 15.7 × 20.4 cm (6 3/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

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Lockheed Air Terminal

1967 · Gelatin silver print, from "Thirtyfour Parking Lots"

Image/paper: 18.1 × 18.2 cm (7 3/16 × 7 3/16 in.)

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Every Building on the Sunset Strip

1966 · Offset photolithographs on paper assembled into 54 accordion-style folded pages; enclosed in a silver Mylar-covered slipcase

Closed, 17.8 x 14.3; Extended 17.8 x 760.7

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Standard Station

1966 · Color screenprint on ivory wove paper

Image: 49.4 × 93.5 cm (19 1/2 × 36 13/16 in.); Sheet: 64.7 × 100.9 cm (25 1/2 × 39 3/4 in.)

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L.A. County Museum with Parking Lot

1965 · Graphite on ivory tracing paper (discolored to light yellow)

22.8 × 30.4 cm (9 × 12 in.)

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Yellow Scream

1964 · Brush and yellow gouache, with graphite, on ivory wove paper

36.5 × 27.2 cm (14 3/8 × 10 3/4 in.)

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Potato

1964 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 19.4 × 24.1 cm (7 11/16 × 9 1/2 in.); Paper: 20.2 × 25.2 cm (8 × 9 15/16 in.)

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Hands Flipping Pages

1963 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 25.2 × 25.2 cm (9 15/16 × 9 15/16 in.); Paper: 27.8 × 35.7 cm (11 × 14 1/16 in.)

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Hand Showing Book Cover

1963 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 24.1 × 19.5 cm (9 1/2 × 7 11/16 in.); Paper: 25.3 × 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in.)

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Blank Book

1963 · Graphite, with frisket and stumping, on cream wove paper

30.5 × 23.3 cm (12 1/16 × 9 3/16 in.)

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Texaco - Vega, Texas

1962 · Gelatin silver print, from "Twentysix Gasoline Stations"

Image: 11.9 × 12.1 cm (4 11/16 × 4 13/16 in.); Paper: 12.6 × 12.8 cm (5 × 5 1/16 in.)

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Twentysix Gasoline Stations Book Cover

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 24.1 × 19.4 cm (9 1/2 × 7 11/16 in.); Paper: 25.3 × 20.2 cm (10 × 8 in.)

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El Paso, Winslow, Arizona

1962 · Gelatin silver print, from "Twentysix Gasoline Stations"

Image/paper: 11.7 × 13.2 cm (4 5/8 × 5 1/4 in.)

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Standard—Figueroa St.

1962 · Gelatin silver print, from "Twentysix Gasoline Stations"

Image: 19.1 × 24 cm (7 9/16 × 9 1/2 in.); Paper: 20.3 × 25.2 cm (8 × 9 15/16 in.)

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Study for Ice

1961 · Oil and pencil on off-white wove paper

27 × 30.4 cm (10 11/16 × 12 in.)

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Untitled

1960 · Metal foil laminated paper and relief print (stamp) on tan paper collaged elements, with pen and ink and transparent brown medium on cream wove paper

22.8 × 17.8 cm (9 × 7 1/16 in.)

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Sherwin-Williams Turpentine

1960 · Gelatin silver print, from "Products"

Image: 13.7 × 11.8 cm (5 7/16 × 4 11/16 in.); Paper: 17.7 × 12.7 cm (7 × 5 in.)

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Joe's Plymouth

1960 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 35.4 × 15.2 cm (13 15/16 × 6 in.)

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Oxydol

1960 · Gelatin silver print, from "Products"

Image/paper: 17.7 × 12.7 cm (7 × 5 in.)

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Joe's Car #2

1960 · Gelatin silver prints (diptych)

Lower image/paper/first mount: 17.8 × 15.3 cm (7 1/16 × 6 1/16 in.); Upper image/paper/first mount: 17.5 × 15.4 cm (6 15/16 × 6 1/8 in.); Second mount: 35 × 15.3 cm (13 13/16 × 6 1/16 in.); Third mount: 48 × 27 cm (18 15/16 × 10 11/16 in.)

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