Object number1979.27.f

Pews

Portfolio/Seriesfrom the portfolio News, Mews, Pews, Brews, Stews & Dues

Date1970

Artist Edward Ruscha (American, born 1937)

CultureAmerican

MediumHershey's chocolate flavour syrup and Camp coffee and chicory essence mixed 6/4 screenprint with lettering of squid ink on Silverbrook Antique Finish paper

Editionedition 97 of 125 plus 25 artist's proofs

DimensionsImage: 18 x 27 in. (45.7 x 68.6 cm)
Sheet: 23 x 31 7/8 in. (58.4 x 81 cm)
Matted: 25 3/4 x 32 1/4 in. (65.4 x 81.9 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. Frederick E. Sherman

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

SignedOn recto, signed lower left margin in pencil: E. Ruscha

InscribedOn recto, by artist, lower left margin in pencil: 97/125 [signature] 1970; on verso, by unidentified hand, lower left corner: VCAG 79.27.f

MarkingsOn verso, stamped lower right: ea687; stamped with a Vitruvian Man inside a circle lower left

BibliographyEngberg, Siri., Edward Ruscha, and Clive Phillpot. Edward Ruscha: Editions, 1959-1999: Catalogue Raisonné. Vol. I. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1999, cat. 36, Vol. II portfolio figs. 18-23; Briony Fer, The Infinite Line: Re-Making Art After Modernism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, 145-149; Cat res: Lisa Turvey, Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Vol. One: 1956-1976. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2014.

Vassar Exhibitions

In Translation: Prints Across Media

Exhibition HistorySummer Reading: The Recreation of Language in Twentieth Century Art, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, June 29 - September 16, 2001;

In Translation: Prints Across Media, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, May 28 - September 18, 2022

DescriptionAn ochre background with the text 'Pews' in pale brown at center in Old English font

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