It's Only Vanishing Cream

Contemporary Art

1973

Ed Ruscha
American, born 1937

Status: On loan to The Museum of Modern Art in New York City for Ed Ruscha
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Ed Ruscha
Title: It's Only Vanishing Cream
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.: 1973
Medium: Shellac on satin
Dimensions: 91.4 × 101.6 cm (36 × 40 in.)
Credit Line: Partial purchase with funds provided by Brad Keywell; partial and promised gift of Edward and Danna Ruscha
Reference Number: 2022.1495

Peter Schjeldahl, Edward Ruscha: Stains, 1971–1975, exh. cat. (New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 1992), n.p. (color ill.).
Thomas Demand and Diedrich Diederichsen, Ed Ruscha: Gunpowder and Stains, exh. cat. (Cologne: Walther König, 2000), 48, 49 (color ill.), 60.
Ferdinand Schmatz, Friedrich Kittler, Wolfgang Kos, Robert Adrian, Peter Weibel, and Grita Insam, Translucent Writings, exh. cat. (Vienna: Grita Insam Gallery, 1994), 70, 71 (color ill.), 105.
Robert Dean with Erin Wright, Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume Two: 1971–1982 (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2005), 226, P1973.29, 227 (color ill.).

Los Angeles, Ace Gallery, Ed Ruscha: New Works in Various Materials plus the 1969 Book of Stains, Sept.–Oct. 16, 1973, no cat.
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Edward Ruscha Stains: 1971–1975, May 5–June 6 (extended to June 14), 1992, cat. 4.
Munich, Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers Galerie, Ed Ruscha: Gunpowder and Stains, May 6–June 17, 2000, no cat. no.
Purchase, NY, Neuberger Museum of Art, Translucent Writings, Jan. 30–Apr. 3, 1994, no cat. no.
London, Hayward Gallery, Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting, Oct. 14, 2009–Jan. 10, 2010, no cat. no.; Munich, Haus der Kunst, Feb. 12–May 2, 2010; Stockholm, Moderna Museet, May 29–Sept. 5, 2010.

The artist; partially sold through Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, and partially promised as a gift to the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 13, 2022.

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