Ed Ruscha Any Town in the U. S. A. Signed Limited Edition Museum Condition Rare

  
Happens 6 times a year with dates and pieces picked at random. Ed Ruscha Any Town in the U. Signed Limited Edition Museum Condition. Title: Any Town in the U. Sheet: 30 1/16" x 24 1/8". Framed: Currently not framed and only photoshopped to show options. We can custom frame to your liking. An approximately 6 inch horizontal hard crease in the center of the bottom margin area, with two attendant vertical creases running downward from it, each approximately 1/2 - 1 inch. A vertical crease, approximately 1 1/2 inches, at the top of the image (running half into the image and half in the uninked area above the plate). There appears to be very minor/shallow cracking in the ink in the area of this crease. Also an approximately 1/2 inch crease within the light blue ink at the bottom of the image.

An occasional pinprick fox mark, including approximately 3 at the center of the left vertical margin and one toward the bottom of the right sheet edge. Occasional traces of faint surface soiling. Verso shows traces of surface soiling. Not hinged and no evidence of previous hinging.

While in school in 1957, Ruscha chanced upon then unknown Jasper Johns. Target with Four Faces in the magazine Print. Ruscha has credited these artists work as sources of inspiration for his change of interest from graphic arts. He was also impacted by John McLaughlin.

S paintings, the work of H. S 1925 painting Goin Fishin , Alvin Lustig. S cover illustrations for New Directions Press.

And much of Marcel Duchamp. In a 1961 tour of Europe, Ruscha came upon more works by Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.

By Sir John Everett Millais. Some critics are quick to see the influence of Edward Hopper.

(1940) in Ruscha's 1963 oil painting, Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas. In any case, "Art has to be something that makes you scratch your head, " Ruscha said.

Although Ruscha denies this in interviews, the vernacular of. Landscapes contributes to the themes and styles central to much of Ruschas paintings, drawings, and books. Examples of this include the publication Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966), a book of continuous photographs of a two and one half mile stretch of the 24 mile.

In 1973, following the model of Every Building on the Sunset Strip , he photographed the entire length of. As a commentary on Los Angeles and its car culture. His work is also strongly influenced by the Hollywood film industry: the mountain in his Mountain Series is a play on the.

Logo, while the dimensions of this work are reminiscent of a movie screen; in his painting The End (1991) these two words, which comprised the final shot in all black-and-white films, are surrounded by scratches and streaks reminiscent of damaged celluloid. Also, the proportions of the Hollywood print seems to mimic the.

Screen however, to make the word "Hollywood", Ruscha transposed the letters of the sign from their actual location on the slope of the. To the crest of the ridge. Among his first paintings SU (19581960), Sweetwater (1959) this is the most widely known, and exemplifies Ruschas interests in popular culture, word depictions, and commercial graphics that would continue to inform his work throughout his career. In Norms, La Cienega, on Fire (1964), Burning Gas Station (196566), and Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Fire (196568), Ruscha brought flames into play. In 1966, Ruscha reproduced Standard Station in a. Printing technique, introducing a gradation of tone in the background of the print, with variations following in 1969 Mocha Standard , Cheese Mold Standard with Olive , and Double Standard. In 1985, Ruscha begins a series of "City Lights" paintings, where grids of bright spots on dark grounds suggest aerial views of the city at night. More recently, his "Metro Plots" series chart the various routes that transverse the city of Los Angeles by rendering schematized street maps and blow-ups of its neighborhood sections, such as in Alvarado to.

The paintings are grey and vary in their degrees of light and dark, therefore appearing as they were done by pencil in the stippling technique. A 2003 portfolio of prints called Los Francisco San Angeles shows street intersections from San Francisco and LA juxtaposed one over the other.

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