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Edward Ruscha, designer

Anchovy, 1969

Description

Maker

  • Tamarind Lithography Workshop, publisher
  • Edward Ruscha, b. 1937, American, designer
  • Serge Lozingot, printer

Title

Anchovy

Year

1969

Medium

Color lithograph

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • color lithograph

Supports

  • Heavy weight cream calendered Rives BFK wove paper

Dimensions

Plate: 48.4 x 71.6 cm (19 1/16 x 28 3/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original-Recto:numbered in pencil in LL:20/20; signed and dated in LR:E. Ruscha 1969 Verso:in pencil numbered above Tamarind chopmark:2550; inscribed to the right of Tamarind chop:CALENDERED RIVES BFK

Identification

Edition

20/20

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Twentieth Century Graphics Fund

Object Number

72.075

Projects & Publications

Publications

Selection III

Contemporary Graphics

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Primacy of Paper

January 15 - June 20, 2010

Ed Ruscha’s fascination with words and the function of language has spanned his career. In his prints of the late 1960s, he toyed with words as both subject and object, choosing to highlight single words based on their phonetic qualities and evocative power. The word “anchovy,” placed against a monochromatic background with letters seemingly composed from spilled liquid, makes a humorous allusion to a fish swimming in water. By evoking a strange sort of familiarity, Ruscha creates an aura of the surreal that further accentuates the word as a physical entity.

Selection III

April 5 - May 6, 1973

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