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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M24187
People
Edward Ruscha, American (Omaha, NE born 1937)
Title
Twentysix Gasoline Stations
Classification
Prints
Work Type
artist's book
Date
1963
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/191264

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Artist's book with offset printing
Technique
Photolithograph
Dimensions
cover: 17.9 x 14 x 0.5 cm (7 1/16 x 5 1/2 x 3/16 in.)
open (H x W X D): 5.7 x 26.7 x 18.4 cm (2 1/4 x 10 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: flyleaf, blue ballpoint, handwritten, signed, in artist's hand: Ed Ruscha

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, California], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, September 20, 1999.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
3rd
Standard Reference Number
Engberg B1

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Copyright
© Ed Ruscha
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
M24187
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Susan Dackerman, ed., Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2015), pp. 46-49, cat. 5, ill. (color)
  • Jennifer Quick, Back to the Drawing Board: Ed Ruscha, Art, and Design in the 1960s, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2022), pp. 126-129, fig. 85-86, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

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