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Ed Ruscha, 200 Years Old, 1980

Name: Ed Ruscha, 200 Years Old, 1980
Brand: Ed Ruscha
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Ed Ruscha

200 Years Old, 1980

Offset lithograph

Pencil signed and numbered 132/425 by Ed Ruscha on the front

30 1/2 × 25 inches

This is a quintessential Los Angeles print - celebrating the 200th anniversary of the City of Angels; a wonderful, classic Ruscha image. It was commissioned by LA200 for the 1981 Los Angeles Bicentennial, and is based upon an original drawing that Ruscha created for the project. Ruscha's lifelong artistic preoccupation has been a thought-experiment on the theme of the decline of American civilization, so naturally Los Angeles would be represented as a sunset (not a sunrise); the image is also perhaps a subtle reference to Sunset Boulevard - a geographical location as well as the title of an iconic Hollywood movie.

This work is pencil signed and numbered from the limited edition of only 425. A must have for any Ruscha fans with a connection to this glittering West Coast city.

Bibliography:
ED RUSCHA: AN ARCHIVE OF PROJECTS, 2023, pg 149.

Publisher:
Haddad's Fine Arts, Inc., California, USA