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Edward Ruscha
Los Francisco San Angeles2001

Not on view
Horizontal print on cream paper with bands of multicolored ruled lines at top and bottom; 'WILSHIRE' in typewriter-style capitals near top left; 'GEARY BLVD.' printed upside down near bottom
Mixed-media work on paper combining street names from two cities—including Wilshire, Beverly, Powell, Geary, Hyde, and O'Farrell—printed at various angles over an abstract grid of overlapping parallel lines in black, red, blue, and orange.
Print of a diagonal street grid map on cream paper, with intersecting red and dark blue parallel lines representing streets labeled WOOD, PIERCE, STEINER, SELMA, FILLMORE, WEBSTER, and SUNSET in stenciled capital letters, with small scattered ink spots at intersections.
Drawing on white paper with two intersecting bundles of fine pencil and blue ink lines forming a cross shape, labeled with street names: "BEVERLY," "LA BREA," "POWELL," and "OFARRELL" in block capitals.
Drawing on cream paper with two bundles of vertical lines in black and red, rendered in loose pencil or crayon strokes. Street names—HIGHLAND, HYDE, VINE, and GRANT—appear in block letters along the lower edge, alternating black and red.
Etching or lithograph depicting intersecting diagonal and horizontal lines in black and green, labeled with street names: "Columbus," "Sunset," "Broadway," and "Holloway," on a pale off-white ground with faint surface texture.
Print on cream paper depicting a street intersection as abstract lines: dense blue horizontal bands crossing red vertical stripes near the right edge, with red block lettering reading "MELROSE" and "AVE." at top and dark blue rotated text reading "MARKET" at lower right.
Artist or Maker
Edward Ruscha
Title
Los Francisco San Angeles
Date Made
2001
Medium
Soft ground etchings
Dimensions
In encasing: 8 5/8 × 10 1/8 × 1/2 in. (21.91 × 25.72 × 1.27 cm) Sheet (each): 8 1/8 × 9 3/4 in. (20.64 × 24.77 cm) Image (each): 4 × 5 1/2 in. (10.16 × 13.97 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of The Jane & Marc Nathanson Family Foundation
Accession Number
M.2005.132.86.1-.7
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Cherix, Christophe, Ana Torok, and Kiko Aebi. Ed Ruscha - Now Then: A Retrospective. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2023.