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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2007.1
People
Edward Ruscha, American (Omaha, NE born 1937)
Title
Cheese Mold Standard with Olive (Standard Station)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1969
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312592

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Screen print
Dimensions
image: 48.26 x 93.98 cm (19 x 37 in.)
sheet: 65.41 x 101.92 cm (25 3/4 x 40 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: E. Ruscha
  • inscription: l.l. in graphite pencil: 64/150 E. Ruscha 1969

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jonathan O. Lee made possible by bequest of William S. Lieberman, by exchange
Copyright
© Ed Ruscha
Accession Year
2007
Object Number
2007.1
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Commentary
Ed Ruscha's screenprint Cheese Mold Standard with Olive is representative of the artist's work of the 1960s and 70s. Ruscha's vernacular images of Standard gas stations and other commercial logos imbued with a feeling of deadpan irony brought him to prominence as a leader of West Coast pop art in the 1960s. Here Ruscha recasts the classic American landscape with a palette of phosphorescent blue-greens and irrationally places the image of a cocktail olive onto the upper right edge of the image.

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