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Edward Ruscha
Sayings1995

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Vertical print combining a rubbed wood-grain texture in gray with hand-lettered blue block text reading 'IF YOU B'LONGED TO ME I'D SELL YOU DOWN DE RIVER FO' YOU GIT TOO FUR GONE'
Lithograph with wood grain texture in black and white, overlaid with red handwritten text reading: "De Angels is Gwine To Mire You Jist As Much As Dey Does Yo Mammy."
Color print with hand-lettered blue text reading "Oh, Is So Glad I 'Member 'Bout Dat!" over layered red and tan wood-grain textures, with horizontal orange-red bands behind each line of text.
Print with a large fingerprint pattern in black ink covering the surface, overlaid with handwritten red text in italic lettering and horizontal yellow brushstrokes as highlights. Text reads across six lines against the swirling ridge pattern.
Print with bold hand-lettered text reading ''Shet Up Yo' Foolin', Fo' I Knock You Side De Head,' set against layered brushstrokes of yellow and red beneath dense gray crosshatched mark-making on a cream ground.
Woodblock or relief print on cream paper with dense black vertical grain-like marks across the surface; three horizontal yellow bands highlight green hand-lettered text reading "WE LISTENING TO DAT" in rough, gestural capitals.
Print with wood grain texture in gray, overlaid with hand-lettered text in blue and yellow reading "Is You 'Feared O' De Ha'nted House?"
Drawing on yellow paper with charcoal wood grain texture and knots. Hand-lettered text reads: "Ain't You My Chile? En Does You Know Anything Dat A Mother Won't Do For Her Chile?"
Print with wood-grain frottage texture in brown on tan ground, overlaid with five horizontal yellow bands bearing red hand-lettered text reading "Dis Ain't What You's Gwyne To Try To Do, Its What You's Gwyne To Do."
Relief print with wood-grain texture in black on cream ground; red hand-lettered text reads "Hole Up Yo Han' En Swah To It" over horizontal yellow stripes.
Artist or Maker
Edward Ruscha
Title
Sayings
Date Made
1995
Medium
Bound book of lithographs on Somerset paper
Dimensions
closed: 19 3/8 × 15 5/8 × 3/4 in. (49.21 × 39.69 × 1.91 cm) Sheet (each): 19 × 15 in. (48.26 × 38.1 cm) Image (each): 14 × 9 1/2 in. (35.56 × 24.13 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of The Jane & Marc Nathanson Family Foundation
Accession Number
M.2005.132.72a-j
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings