Edward Ruscha

Compazenes, Crumbs
1976

A minimalist artwork featuring a dark, almost black canvas with two small clusters of yellow dots, one on the left and one on the right, resembling distant stars in the night sky.

A minimalist artwork featuring a dark, almost black canvas with two small clusters of yellow dots, one on the left and one on the right, resembling distant stars in the night sky.

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Date
1976

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Gunpowder and pastel on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 28 5/8 × 39 7/16in. (72.7 × 100.2 cm)

Accession number
2005.70

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President

Rights and reproductions
© Ed Ruscha

API
artworks/19806

Exhibitions

Artists Making Photographs: Chamberlain, Rauschenberg, Ruscha, Samaras, Warhol

Jan 16–May 17, 2009
Cotton puffs, Q-Tips, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha

June 23–Sept 26, 2004

Edward Ruscha
563 works in the collection

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