Salt

Prints and Drawings

1967

Ed Ruscha
American, born 1937

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Ed Ruscha
Title: Salt
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1967
Medium: Graphite with smudging on white wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated recto, lower left, in graphite: E. Ruscha 1967"
Dimensions: 36.8 × 58.5 cm (14 1/2 × 23 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Irving Stenn Jr. Drawings Collection in memory of Marcia Stenn
Reference Number: 2014.1364

Lisa Turvey, Edward Ruscha, Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume One 1956-1976 (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2014), p. 181, no. D1967.13 (color ill.).

New York, Richard Gray Gallery, “Ed Ruscha: Works from the 60s and 70s,” Nov. 5-Dec. 5, 1998.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Ed Ruscha and Photography” (companion exhibition), Mar. 1-June 1, 2008.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Contemporary Drawings from the Irving Stenn Jr. Collection,” Nov. 19, 2011-Feb. 26, 2012, pp. 115 (color ill.) and 157, cat. by Mark Pascale.

Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco. Richard Gray Gallery, New York and Chicago, by 1998 [New York 1998 exh. cat.]. Irving Stenn, Jr., Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.

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