Edward RuschaAmerican, 1937Untitled (Blank Signs)
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Cambridge, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- Source
- The museum
About the work
Grey, cloth bound board portfolio, no image or text on portfolio cover; five separate sheets cream paper; frontispiece embossed in letterpress on recto and verso; four separate images, each centered on page.
Portfolio with five sheets:
Frontispiece - Letterpress (printed recto and verso)
TL 39740 (Parent record)
Four prints - each etching with aquatint
Each page: 32.3 x 30.5 cm 12 7/16 x 12 inches
Plate dimensions on prints: 19.9 x 19.8 cm 7 7/8 x 7 ¾ inches
Edition of 35: 28/25
TL 39740.1 - 4
Design: Ed Ruscha and Jacob Samuel
Technique: Etching with aquatint
Printing: Jacob Samuel and Eric Ziemann
Letterpress: Les Ferriss
Project coordinator: Chelsea Hadley
Paper: Magnani Pescia
Edition: 35
Artist's Proofs: 5
Lapis Proofs: 2
Printer's Proofs: 2
BAT: 1
Co-published by Lapis/Edition Jacob Samuel
Harvard Art Museums
Particulars
- Accession number
- M26554.4
In the catalog
Sources
- Harvard Art Museums
- Image: Harvard Art Museums — © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Meanwhile, in the life of Edward Ruscha
The whole life2003
Curates a show of his teacher Emerson Woelffer
He curates “Emerson Woelffer: A Solo Flight”, a survey of the work of the late Los Angeles-based Abstract Expressionist, under whom he studied, for the inaugural exhibition of the Gallery at REDCAT.
2004
The Whitney acquires more than 300 of his photographs
The Whitney Museum of American Art acquires more than 300 photographs through a purchase and gift from the artist, making it the principal repository of his photographic oeuvre; they include vintage prints from his seven-month European tour of 1961.
2005
Represents the United States at the 51st Venice Biennale
Ruscha shows at the Biennale the painting cycle “The Course of Empire”, made for the place and the occasion; two of its works, “The Old Tool & Die Building” and “The Old Trade School Building”, are bought by Leonard A. Lauder for the Whitney.
