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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M26554.1
People
Edward Ruscha, American (Omaha, NE born 1937)
Title
Untitled (Blank Signs)
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Blank Signs
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
2004
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/19279

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
plate: 19.9 x 19.8 cm (7 13/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Each print signed in pencil: Ed Ruscha 2004 and embossed: J S signed: "Ed Rusch

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Anthony and Celeste Meier, San Francisco, California, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, August 16, 2005.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Anthony and Celeste Meier in honor of Marjorie B. Cohn
Copyright
© Ed Ruscha
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
M26554.1
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Grey, cloth bound board portfolio, no image or text on portfolio cover; five separate sheets cream paper; frontispiece embossed in letterpress on recto and verso; four separate images, each centered on page.

Portfolio with five sheets:
Frontispiece - Letterpress (printed recto and verso)
TL 39740 (Parent record)

Four prints - each etching with aquatint
Each page: 32.3 x 30.5 cm 12 7/16 x 12 inches
Plate dimensions on prints: 19.9 x 19.8 cm 7 7/8 x 7 ¾ inches
Edition of 35: 28/25
TL 39740.1 - 4

Design: Ed Ruscha and Jacob Samuel
Technique: Etching with aquatint
Printing: Jacob Samuel and Eric Ziemann
Letterpress: Les Ferriss
Project coordinator: Chelsea Hadley
Paper: Magnani Pescia
Edition: 35
Artist's Proofs: 5
Lapis Proofs: 2
Printer's Proofs: 2
BAT: 1
Co-published by Lapis/Edition Jacob Samuel

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