Edward Ruscha

Mobil, Gallup, New Mexico
1962

A black and white photograph depicting a vintage Mobil gas station with a large sign on the roof, situated next to a road with prominent tire tracks in the foreground. A sign for Thunderbird Lodge is visible to the left, and there are mountains in the distance under a cloudy sky.
A black and white photograph depicting a vintage Mobil gas station with a large sign on the roof, situated next to a road with prominent tire tracks in the foreground. A sign for Thunderbird Lodge is visible to the left, and there are mountains in the distance under a cloudy sky.

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Date
1962

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 4 15/16 × 6 15/16in. (12.5 × 17.6 cm) Image: 4 15/16 × 6 9/16in. (12.5 × 16.7 cm)

Accession number
2004.464

Series
Twentysix Gasoline Stations

Edition
Possibly 1/1

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Foundation, and Diane and Thomas Tuft

Rights and reproductions
© Ed Ruscha

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