Al's Grand Hotel (Neon Sign)

Contemporary Art

1971

Allen Ruppersberg
American, born 1944

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Allen Rawson Ruppersberg
Title: Al's Grand Hotel (Neon Sign)
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 1971
Medium: Neon sign mounted on metal
Dimensions: 102.9 × 77.5 × 16.6 cm (40 1/2 × 30 1/2 × 6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of The Stanley J. and Elyse S. Grinstein Trust
Reference Number: 2016.101

Allen Ruppersberg, Al’s Grand Hotel, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Allen Ruppersberg, 1971), n.p. (ill.).
Yves Aupetitallot and Dan Cameron, Where’s Al?, exh. cat. (Grenoble: Magasin Centre national d’art contemporain, 1996), 104 (ill.); 141.
Constance Lewallen, Karen Moss, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Anne Rorimer, State of mind: new California art circa 1970, exh. cat. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011), 43, Fig. 1.29 (ill.), 44, Fig. 1.30 (ill.), 45, Fig. 1.31 (ill.), 46, 61, 84, 140, 238, Fig. 4.13 (ill.), 239, Fig. 4.14 (color ill.), 240, 268-69.
Allen Ruppersberg, Al’s Grand Hotel, exh. cat., limited edition of 100 reprint (Nieves, 2013), n.p. (ill.).
Siri Engberg, ed., and Thomas Crow, Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 1968-2018, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2018), 109 (ill.), 280.

Hollywood, CA, 7175 Sunset Boulevar, Al’s Grand Hotel, May 7–June 12, 1971, no cat no.
Grenoble, France, Magasin Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Where’s Al?, Oct. 19, 1996–Jan. 5, 1997, no cat. no.
Newport Beach, Orange County Museum of Art, State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, Oct. 9, 2011–Jan. 22, 2012, no cat. no.; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Feb. 29–June 17, 2012; Vancouver, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Sept. 28–Dec. 9, 2012; SITE Santa Fe, Feb. 23–May 19, 2013; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, June 20–Sept. 8, 2013; Chicago, Smart Museum, Oct. 3, 2013–Jan. 12, 2014.
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property, Mar. 17-July 29, 2018, no cat. no.; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Feb. 10-May 12, 2019.

The artist; purchased directly by Elyse and Stanley Grinstein, Los Angeles, 1971; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2016.

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