Art Gallery: Ed Ruscha

Eight iconic American images from a West Coast master

by TheartsdeskFriday, 06 November 2009

Half a century of Ed Ruscha's paintings are on show at the Hayward Gallery, London. Mark Hudson reviews elsewhere in theartsdesk the display of Los Angeles's most famous painter, "an aspect of American art about which we’ve remained remarkably ignorant".

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All pictures copyright Ed Ruscha 2009, image credits Paul Ruscha except where marked.

Oof, 1962 - 1963, Courtesy the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Securing the last letter, 1964, Courtesy Collection of Emily Fisher Landau, New York.
The Old Tech-Chem Building, 2003, Courtesy The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica
Los Angeles County Museum on Fire, 1965-68, Courtesy Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, photo credit Lee Stalsworth
Back of Hollywood, 1977 Courtesy Collection of Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon
Large Trademark with Eight Spotlights, 1962, Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Untitled, 1986, Courtesy James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
Talk Radio, 1988, Courtesy the collection of Joe Goode and Hiromi Katayama

Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting is at the Hayward Gallery until 10 January 2010. Information and reservations here.

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