Ed Ruscha
America Whistles (Siri Engberg 84), 1975
5 color lithograph on Arches paper
paper: 30 1/16 x 22 7/16 inches
frame: 31 1/2 x 24 inches
edition: 200 + 25 AP's, 25 HC's
signed & dated "Edward Ruscha 1975" in pencil lower right
numbered in pencil lower left
workshop chop mark lower left
workshop number reverse lower right "197c-ER75"
printer Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles
published by APC Editions, division of Chermayeff & Geismar Associates, Inc., New York (and underwritten by Mobil Oil Corporation).
Condition
New, pristine condition, floated archival metal frame with UV plexiglass. The impression particularly fresh and vibrant, the paper color bright white, not yellow like most impressions on the market. For decades this impression was archival stored and was only recently framed by us, floated in archival metal frame with UV plexiglass.
Provenance
From the personal collection of Christo & Jeanne-Claude
Literature
Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999 Catalogue Raisonne, Siri and Clive Phillpot Engberg, Walker Art Center, 1999, no. 84, another impression reproduced in color, page 23.
Museum Collections
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
View Side by Side comparison
View Side by Side comparison, above, of the museum quality impression of Ed Ruscha America Whistles, 1975, 5 color lithograph, offered for sale in the Joseph K. Levene Fine Art, Ltd. Store vs. a compromised impression that is is significantly attenuated and toned currently offered for sale by a UK art dealer. The comparison compelling. Condition Matters!
About
A master printmaker who also works across the mediums of books, drawing, photography and even film. In 2009 Ed Ruscha starred in a movie directed by the artist Doug Aitken! Ed Ruscha has been an influence on a staggering array of artists, including Stephen Shore, Christopher Wool and Anselm Kiefer.
Ed Ruscha's artwork has been featured in dozens of exhibitions around the world, including
Ed Ruscha Now Then, 2023 Museum of Modern Art Retrospective, Ed Ruscha:
50 Years of Painting at London's Hayward Gallery (2009),
Ed Ruscha: Made in Los Angeles at Madrid's Reina Sofia in 2002, a 2000 retrospective at the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, a survey of his works-on-paper at the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1998, and a
2004 Retrospective at The Whitney Museum. In 2005 he represented the United States at the 51st Venice Biennale, and in 2009 Ruscha received a National Arts Award.
Ed Ruscha: Paper, an exhibition of Ed Ruscha works created over the last six decades was at the Joslyn Art Museum until February 23, 2025. Ed Ruscha: Paper includes drawings, prints and photographs rendered in ink, acrylic, pencil, pastel and gunpowder on paper. gifted to the museum by Ed Ruscha and his wife, Danna.
