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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1973.98
People
Edward Ruscha, American (Omaha, NE born 1937)
Title
Valiums, Splinters
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1973
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309008

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite, pastel and gunpowder on white paper
Dimensions
sight: 27.1 x 71.4 cm (10 11/16 x 28 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.l.: E. Ruscha 1973
  • gallery label: back of frame: EDWARD RUSCHA / VALIUMS, SPLINTERS 1973 / gunpowder and pastel on paper / 11 1/2 x 29" / (D-134)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Lee Gallery, Belmont, Massachusetts], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1973.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Turvey D1973.05

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund
Copyright
© Ed Ruscha
Accession Year
1973
Object Number
1973.98
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edward Ruscha, Guacamole Airlines and Other Drawings by Edward Ruscha, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1980), pl. 27
  • Dave Hickey and Peter Plagens, The Works of Edward Ruscha, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Hudson Hills Press (New York and San Francisco, 1982), no. 86, pl. 63 (color)
  • Modern Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan, 1999), cat. no. 91, repr. (color)
  • Lisa Turvey, ed., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Gagosian Gallery, New York (New York, 2014), p. 325, cat. no. D1973.05, ill.

Exhibition History

  • New American Graphic Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 09/12/1973 - 10/28/1973
  • The Works of Edward Ruscha, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 03/25/1982 - 05/30/1982; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 07/08/1982 - 09/05/1982; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, 10/04/1982 - 11/28/1982; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, 12/27/1982 - 02/20/1983; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 03/21/1983 - 05/15/1983
  • Collecting for Harvard: Works Acquired through the Generosity of Melvin R. Seiden, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/03/1993 - 08/15/1993
  • Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000
  • Nominally Figured: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/08/2006 - 02/25/2007
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/25/2015 - 10/05/2015

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