Precise

Edward Ruscha|Ed Hamilton|Hamilton Press

1989 · Lithograph · Drawings and Prints

Most often associated with West Coast Pop art, Ruscha began making paintings and prints of solitary words and pithy phrases-readable as signs, symbols, or images-as early as 1960, anticipating by nearly a decade the primacy of language in Conceptual art. In the mid-1980s, Ruscha often set words against evocative backgrounds, which he referred to as "suggestors." In this suite of lithographs, light streaming through an unseen window creates a grid-like shadow across the surface.

Artist

Edward Ruscha|Ed Hamilton|Hamilton Press

Date

1989

Medium

Lithograph

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

John B. Turner Fund, 2010