Precise

Edward Ruscha American
Printed by Ed Hamilton American
Published by Hamilton Press American

Not on view

Most often associated with West Coast Pop art, Ruscha began making paintings and prints of solitary words and pithy phrases-readable as signs, symbols, or images-as early as 1960, anticipating by nearly a decade the primacy of language in Conceptual art. In the mid-1980s, Ruscha often set words against evocative backgrounds, which he referred to as "suggestors." In this suite of lithographs, light streaming through an unseen window creates a grid-like shadow across the surface.

Precise, Edward Ruscha (American, born Omaha, Nebraska, 1937), Lithograph

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