The Los Angeles County Museum on Fire

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Ed Ruscha

  • Bio: American, b. Omaha, Nebraska, 1937
  • School: Pop Art (West Coast)

Provenance

Jh Purchased From Blum Gallery, Irving, Los Angeles 1968

Exhibition History

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Ed Ruscha, 29 June-17 September 2000, cat. TOUR: MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Chicago, 20 November-5 February 2001; MIAMI ART MUSEUM, 22 March-3 June; MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH, 1 July-30 September; MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Oxford, England, 28 October-13 January 2002.

CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, Paris. "Los Angeles 1955-1985: Birth of an Artistic Capital," 8 March-17 July 2006.

HAYWARD GALLERY, London. "Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting," 14 October-10 January 2010, cat. ill. p. 103. TOUR: HAUS DE KUNST, Munich, 12 February-2 May 2010; MODERNA MUSEET, Stockholm, 29 May-5 September, 2010.

Published References

WOLF, SYLVIA. Ed Ruscha and Photography (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art and Göttingen, Germany: Steidl Verlag, 2004), pp. 238-239, ill. 275.

Ed Ruscha

The Los Angeles County Museum on Fire, 1965-1968 Oil on canvas
53 1/2 x 133 1/2 in. (135.9 x 339.1 cm)

Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972

Accession Number: 72.252

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