The word "suprematism" outlined in pencil over a loose cloud of blue circles.

Edward Ruscha

Surrealism

1966

Not on view

556 works in the collection
32 exhibitions

View more by this artist https://whitney.org/collection/works/19802

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Graphite pencil and tempera on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 12 × 18 in. (30.5 × 45.7 cm)

Accession number
2005.66

Credit line
Gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President

Rights and reproductions
© Ed Ruscha

API
artworks/19802

Exhibitions

Installation photography

Installation view of Sixties Surreal (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 24, 2025-January 19, 2026). From left to right: Ed Ruscha, Surrealism, 1966; Robert Crumb, Head #1, 1967; Robert Crumb, Burned Out, cover of the “East Village Other” 5, no. 10, 1970; Mike Henderson, Dufus, 1970/73; Ming Smith, Kites Inside, Columbus, Ohio, c. 1972; Shawn Walker, Man with Bubble, Central Park (near Bandshell), c. 1960-79 (printed 1989); Romare Bearden, Pittsburg Memory 2/6, 1964; Diane Arbus, Five members of the Monster Fan Club, N.Y.C. 1961, 1961; Adger Cowans, Three Shadows, 1966; Paul Thek, Untitled, 1963. Artworks © Ed Ruscha; © Robert Crumb, 1967; © Mike Henderson; © Ming Smith; © Shawn Walker; © 2025 Romare Bearden Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © The Estate of Diane Arbus; © Adger Cowans; © Estate of Paul Thek. Photograph by Ron Amstutz, digital image © Whitney Museum of American Art

From the exhibition Sixties Surreal