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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M26347
People
Edward Ruscha, American (Omaha, NE born 1937)
Title
Stews
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: News, Mews, Pews, Brews, Stews & Dues
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1970
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/49977

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Organic screenprint
Technique
Screen print
Dimensions
sheet: 58.4 x 80.8 cm (23 x 31 13/16 in.)
frame: 69.1 x 84.1 x 3.2 cm (27 3/16 x 33 1/8 x 1 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Signed and dated in graphite lower left, "E. Ruscha 1970"
  • inscription: lower left, graphite, signed, in artist's hand: Signed and dated in graphite at lower left: "E. Ruscha 1970"
  • inscription: lower left, graphite, in artist's hand: Numbered in graphite at lower left: "1/125"
  • stamp: reverse, lower left, ink: Inked workshop chop mark on reverse at lower left.
  • stamp: reverse, lower right: Workshop number stamped in ink on reverse, at lower right: "ea 689"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[G. W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, New York], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, March 16, 2005.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
1/125
Standard Reference Number
Engberg 38

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Copyright
© Ed Ruscha
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
M26347
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Susan Dackerman, ed., Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2015), pp. 126-129, cat. 31, ill. (color)
  • Jennifer Roberts, Contact: The Art and Pull of Print, Princeton University Press (Princeton and Oxford, 2024), p. 121, fig. 4.14, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

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Verification Level

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