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Royal Road Test, Edward Ruscha, 1967
Edward Ruscha, portraitEdward RuschaAmerican, 1937

Royal Road Test

1967 · Print

May one see it?

Not receiving at present

Harvard Art Museums

Cambridge, United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

Checked
3 days ago
In this state since
Sep 27, 2026
Source
The museum
On the mapMuseum page

Particulars

1967 · aged 30
1937now
Accession number
M24200

In the catalog

PrintsLithographPost-war art20th centuryAmerican

Sources

  • Harvard Art Museums
  • Image: Harvard Art Museums — © President and Fellows of Harvard College

Meanwhile, in the life of Edward Ruscha

The whole life
  1. 1965–1969

    Layout designer at Artforum as “Eddie Russia”

    After college he worked as a layout artist for the Carson-Roberts advertising agency in Los Angeles, and from 1965 to 1969 as layout designer for Artforum magazine under the pseudonym “Eddie Russia”; in 1969 he was a visiting professor of printing and drawing at UCLA.

  2. 1966

    “Every Building on the Sunset Strip” is published

    A book of continuous photographs of a two-and-a-half-mile stretch of the 24-mile Sunset Boulevard.

  3. 1966

    “Los Angeles Now” in London — his first European exhibition

    Ruscha is included in “Los Angeles Now” at the Robert Fraser Gallery in London, his first European exhibition.

  4. 1967

    Marries Danna Knego

    He marries Danica “Danna” Knego, whom he met in 1965; the couple has two children, a son, Edward “Eddie”, and a daughter, Sonny.

  5. 1967–1970

    Self-imposed exile from painting: gunpowder and graphite drawings

    During a period of self-imposed exile from painting (1967–1970) he makes gunpowder and graphite drawings: single words in a trompe l'oeil technique, as if formed from ribbons of curling paper.

  6. 1968

    First solo show in Europe, in Cologne

    His first European solo show takes place in Cologne, at Galerie Rudolf Zwirner.

More by Edward Ruscha

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Large Trademark with Eight Spotlights, Edward Ruscha, 1962

Large Trademark with Eight Spotlights

1962 · Whitney Museum of American Art

Vicksburg, Edward Ruscha, 1960

Vicksburg

1960 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Dorothy Ruscha, Edward Ruscha, 1960

Dorothy Ruscha

1960 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Zone, Edward Ruscha, 1961

Zone

1961 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Study for “OOF", Ed Ruscha, 1962

Study for “OOF"

1962 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art

3327 Division ('39 Ford), Ed Ruscha, 1962

3327 Division ('39 Ford)

1962 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art

New Painting of Common Objects, Edward Ruscha, 1962

New Painting of Common Objects

1962 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Gas, Edward Ruscha, 1962

Gas

1962 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

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