- Artist or Maker
- Edward Ruscha
United States, Nebraska, Omaha, active California, Los Angeles, born 1937 - Title
- Hollywood
- Date Made
- 1968
- Medium
- Screenprint
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 17 1/2 × 44 3/8 in. (44.45 × 112.71 cm)
Image: 12 1/2 × 40 7/8 in. (31.75 × 103.82 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.81.178
- Collecting Area
- Prints and Drawings
- Curatorial Notes
Ed Ruscha first drew the Hollywood sign in 1967. Since then, the familiar icon has appeared in many of his paintings, drawings, and prints. Ruscha has joked that the sign was "a smog indicator: if I could read it, the weather was OK," but its recurrence in his art hints at his conviction that the landscape of Los Angeles is shaped by film culture.
- Selected Bibliography
Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1992, vol. 29-30, no. 12-1 (December, 1991-January, 1993).
- Engberg, Siri and Clive Philpott. Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999. Minneapolis: Walker Arts Center, 1999.
Tuchman, Maurice. Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981.
- Cohen, Jean-Louis. Frank Gehry: Catalogue Raisonné of the Drawings. Vol. 1, 1954-1978. Paris: Editions Cahiers d'Art, 2020.
- Cherix, Christophe, Ana Torok, and Kiko Aebi. Ed Ruscha - Now Then: A Retrospective. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2023.
- Copyright
- © Ed Ruscha
