She Sure Knew Her Devotionals

Prints and Drawings

1976

Ed Ruscha
American, born 1937

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Artist: Ed Ruscha
Title: She Sure Knew Her Devotionals
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.: 1976
Medium: Blue pastel, touches of graphite, on off-white wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated, verso, lower right, in graphite: "Edward Ruscha 1976"
Dimensions: 57.7 × 72.9 cm (22 3/4 × 28 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Robert O. Delaney Endowment Funds
Reference Number: 2011.84
Copyright: © 1976 Ed Ruscha.

Edward Ruscha, Guacamole Airlines and Other Drawings by Edward Ruscha (New York: Abrams, 1980), pl. 57.
Michael Delgado and Hunter Drohojowska, “Pick of the Week,” L. A. Weekly (May 27, 1983), p. 37 (ill.).
Dave Hickey, “Wacky Molière Lines: A Listener’s Guide to Ed-werd Rew-shay,” Parkett 18 (1988), pp. 28-29.
Ed Ruscha, They Called Her Styrene (London: Phaidon, 2000), n.p. (color ill.).
Lisa Turvey, Edward Ruscha, Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume One 1956-1976 (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2014), p. 425, no. D1976.30 (color ill.).

Fort Worth Art Museum, “Edward Ruscha: Recent Drawings,” Dec. 4, 1977-Jan. 22, 1978.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, “The Works of Edward Ruscha,” Mar. 25–May 30, 1982, cat. 101 (ill.), cat. by Anne Livet, et. al.; also, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, July 7–Sept. 5, 1982; Vancouver Art Gallery, Oct. 4-Nov. 28, 1982; San Antonio Art Museum, Dec. 27, 1982-Feb. 20, 1983; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 3-June 5, 1983.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Rarely Seen Contemporary Works on Paper,” July 28, 2012-Jan. 13, 2013, no cat.
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Inc., “Ed Ruscha” ‘Custom-Built Intrigue,’ Drawings,” May 6-June 30, 2017.

Sold by the artist through Gagosian Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2011.

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