Object number1979.27.d

News

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

Date1970

Artist Edward Ruscha (American, born 1937)

Printer Alecto Studios (London)

CultureAmerican

MediumBlack currant pie filling over red salmon screenprint 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 13/16 in. (58.4 x 80.8 cm)
Matted: 25 1/2 x 32 1/4 in. (64.8 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 in pencil: VCAG79.27.d

MarkingsOn verso, stamped lower right: ea685; 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. 34; 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;

News/Prints: Printmaking & the Newspaper, International Print Center of New York, NY, September 5 - October 19, 2013;

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

DescriptionA yellow brown gradient background with the text 'News' of negative space at center in Old English font

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