16.5" x 13.75"" FramedSigned and dated Ed Ruscha 2001, lower right"

A painter,printmaker,and filmmaker,Edward Ruscha was born in Omaha,Nebraska in 1937 and lived some 15 years in Oklahoma City before moving permanently to Los Angeles where he studied at the Chouinard Art Institute from 1956 through 1960. By the early sixties he was well known for his paintings,collages and printmaking as well as his association with the progressive Ferus Gallery,which also included artists Robert Irwin,Edward Moses,Ken Price and Edward Kienholz. Ruscha has consistently combined the cityscape of his adopted hometown with vernacular language to communicate a particular urban experience. Encompassing painting,drawing,photography and artist's books Ruscha's work holds the mirror up to the banality of urban life and gives order to the barrage of mass media-fed images and information that confronts us daily. Ruscha's early career as a graphic artist continues to strongly influence his aesthetic and thematic approach.Provenance: 2001,Private Collector acquired directly from artist; 2004 consigned to Sotheby’s London for sale – acquired by Private Collector,Paradise Valley,Arizona.