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An Exhibition of Gasoline Powered Engines

Photo: Paul Macapia

An Exhibition of Gasoline Powered Engines

1993

Ed Ruscha

American, born 1937

Acrylic on linen
84 x 84 in. (213.4 x 213.4 cm)
Purchased with funds from Jeffrey and Susan Brotman, Mary Alice and Dick Cooley, Jane and David Davis, Robert Dootson, Lyn and Jerry Grinstein, Ann and John H. Hauberg, Mimi and Vinton Sommerville, Mary and Dean Thornton, Carol Wright, and Margaret E. Fuller Purchase Fund
98.52
Provenance: The artist; purchased by Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1998
Photo: Paul Macapia
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryChicago, Illinois, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Radical Scavengers: The Conceptual Vernacular in Recent American Art, 1994.

New York, New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, An Exhibition in Honor of his Gallery and Artists, Jan. 27 - Mar. 19, 1996.

Los Angeles, California, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ed Ruscha's Light: An Exhibition of Works Related to the Artist's Recent Commission for the Getty Center, May 12 - Sept. 13, 1998.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Anne Gerber Biennial: 2000 1/2 going forward looking back, June 8 - July 16, 2000.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Modern in America, July 8, 2004 - Feb. 27, 2005.

London, England, Hayward Gallery, Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting, Oct. 14, 2009 - Jan. 10, 2010.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Pop Departures. Oct. 9, 2014 - Jan. 11, 2015. Text by Catharina Manchanda, et al. No cat. no., p. 103, reproduced p. 75.

New York, New York, Museum of Modern Art, Ed Ruscha / Now Then, Sept. 10, 2023 - Jan. 13, 2024 (Los Angeles, California, LACMA, April 7 - Oct. 6, 2024)
Published ReferencesCherix, Christophe. ED RUSCHA: NOW THEN. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2023; p. 257.

Ellroy, James, Ralph Rugoff, Alexandra Schwartz, et. al. Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting. London: Hayward Gallery, 2009; p. 151

Ed Ruscha Getty Exhibition 2008. http://www.gettymuseum.us/news/press/exhibit/ruscha.html
accessed February 11, 2008

Hackett, Regina. "Seattle Art Museum Rises Artfully to a Whole New Level," Seattle Post-Intelligencer. May 3, 2007. Theater/Fine Arts

Hackett, Regina. "SAM's Modern Art Curator has High Hopes for his Expanded Collection," Seattle Post-Intelligencer. March 14, 2007. Theater/Fine Arts

Ishikawa, Chiyo et al. Seattle Art Museum Downtown. Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 2007, illus. pp. 59, 69

Engberg, Siri; "Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999." New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 1999; pg 42-43

McKenna, Kristine, "Lightening Up the Getty"; Los Angeles Times, May 24, 1998 Calendar

Bartley, Tracy. "Seeing Things Age Is a Form of Beauty," Conservation, The GCI Newsletter 13 (2), 1998; p. 10-11.

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