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“I just happened to paint words like someone else paints flowers.” — Ed Ruscha
In 1956, Ruscha left his hometown of Oklahoma City and drove along interstate highway 66 to study commercial art in Los Angeles, where he drew inspiration from the city’s architecture, colloquial speech, and popular culture.
Ruscha has recorded and transformed familiar subjects—whether roadside gasoline stations or the 20th Century Fox logo—often revisiting motifs, sites, or words years later.
See a major retrospective of #EdRuscha’s work, on view now at MoMA → mo.ma/ruscha
Learn more about the artist → mo.ma/3PMpj93
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All artworks by Ed Ruscha © 2023 Ed Ruscha [1] “Oof.” 1962 (reworked 1963). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Agnes Gund, the Louis and Bessie Adler Foundation, Inc., Robert and Meryl Meltzer, Jerry I. Speyer, Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro, Emily and Jerry Spiegel, an anonymous donor, and purchase. [2] “Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half.” 1964. Private collection. [3] “Ed Ruscha in his 1024 3/4 N. Western Avenue studio, Hollywood, California.” 1970. © Larry Bell, courtesy Wendy Bengston [4] “Knox Less, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.” 1962. The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Purchase, with funds from The Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Foundation, and Diane and Thomas Tuft [5] “Hollywood Study.” 1968. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist. [6] “Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Fire.” 1965-68. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC. Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn [7] “People Getting Ready to Do Things.” 1974. Private collection. [8] “Annie.” 1962. Collection Larry Gagosian [9 + 12] Installation views, “ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN” [10] “Large Trademark with Eight Spotlights.” 1962. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Purchase with funds from the Mrs. Percy Uris Purchase Fund. [11] “Smash.” 1963. Private collection.
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